Everybody has got their code
We hear Daryl talking to Abraham and Sasha over the talkies as the herd follows them down the road. They speed up to lose the herd and head back to Alexandria. Out of nowhere gunfire. Several people with rifles shoot at them as they drive through a town. Daryl gets separated from Abraham and Sasha. The gunmen follow them in cars. Daryl bypasses a group of zombies but is followed by a car. Abraham and Sasha get out of the car and shoot the gunmen from one car. Abraham smiles because he thinks they have won. Sasha reminds him that there might be others. Daryl tricks the car that is following him and heads through the woods on his bike. His bike stops and he falls to the ground. Not sure if he is out of gas or if his engine was shot. He lands next to a zombie in a motorcycle helmet.
Daryl pushes his bike through the woods. He passes a burnt skeleton. He drops his bike and tries to contact Sasha and Abraham over the walkie. He looks down at his hand and sees it's covered in blood. He takes off his jacket and we see he has been shot. He hears something and covers his bike with a tree branch and carries his crossbow ready to fire. He stumbles upon two women. One of them says,You found us okay? Here we are. We earned what we took." A man comes up behind Daryl and hits him with a branch. Daryl wakes up at night by a fire with the three strangers. He comes in and out of consciousness. The man says, "Probably just another of the soldiers from the outposts. Probably hates him too." They pack up his crossbow. The next morning he wakes up to find his hands tied. The man points a gun at Daryl and tells him to get up and move. If Daryl doesn't say anything then they won't shoot him. Daryl responds, "I ain't what you think." They walk through the woods. We see more burnt bodies as they walk through the woods. They offer Daryl some water. The man says if the others find them they might give Daryl to them. Everybody has got their code. "You feel you gotta kneel, that's fair enough, we don't." They are meeting up with someone names Patty. More burnt zombies. They talk about how they burnt the forest full of zombies. They thought everyone else was fighting off the zombies just like they were. But they were stupid. Daryl says that they are being stupid right now. The man points a gun at him. He says, "You made a choice to kill for someone else, to have them own you for a roof over your head and three squares. So maybe I'm not considering all aspects here." He wants to know if he is being stupid by not killing Daryl. Daryl says no. He can make a deal and help them. The man says they should never had trusted "You people" to begin with. They arrive at a gated lot with zombies roaming around. Patty is gone. The new plan is to get out of there. One of the girls passes out. Daryl takes their bag that contains his crossbow and runs into the woods. He unties his hands and calls to Sasha again over the walkie. He hears a zombie and tries to pull his crossbow out of the bag. He finally gets it out and shoots the zombie just in time. He looks in the bag and sees a cooler.
Sasha and Abraham find tracks for Daryl's bike. They assume he got away. Abraham says the people that attacked them were waiting to kill someone in particular. Abraham thinks that Daryl went back to Alexandria. Sasha wants to stay and wait for Daryl. They walk down the main road and Sasha writes on a door the word DIXON. She stops Abraham from killing solitary zombie trudging down the street. She says he is smarter than that. She walks into the building. Abraham searches through the building and finds a military uniform handing on a coat rack. He sees a picture of the officer and his family. Abraham finds Sasha sitting on a chair by a room with a zombie trapped inside. She tells him, "Stand watch or sleep. Your choice." Abraham decides to do a little shopping. Sasha lies down on the floor with the walkie next to her. Note on the board where zombie is trapped says: "Proud to have provided value. I pray for the world. Keep going. Stay cheerful. The bites kill." Abraham just wants to kill the zombie. He calls this building their new home. Should they give the zombie a name? She wants to know why he came with her. He replies that she was out of control. She says she is in control now. He says he is also in control. She says that his behavior would suggest otherwise. He says loose ends make his ass itch. She talks about having choices in Alexandria. "Without walkers, without bullets, without sh#$%@ hitting the fan you are accountable for them. I mean hell, you are always accountable. It's just with all that other noise, you people won't notice."
Daryl walks through the woods and finds the people that kidnapped him. He orders the man to drop his gun. He wants to know what is in the duffel. He also wants to know what the man was carving. The man hands him a figurine that he carved. Daryl asks for it. The man gives it to him. Daryl tosses them their duffel back with their stuff. A car comes through the woods. Daryl hides behind some trees. Some men whose faces we can't see come out and tell the people they want what they took and they are going to give it back and pay for the gas and time it took the men to find them. They know the rules. The whittler calls one of the men Wade and says they are not going back. Daryl leads his kidnappers away from the group of creepy men. He gives the gun back to the man. Over a walkie we can hear the following: "Eyes open. Cover your quadrant. Go to alpha channel." They see one of the men walk in the woods. Daryl makes noise so he will come towards them but will have to walk past a trapped zombie. The zombie bites the man. He calls out to Wade. Wade comes and chops off the bitten arm. The girl that passed out earlier is getting a shot from the other woman (insulin?). The man turns to Daryl and tells him that he thought Daryl was with the other men. He asks why Daryl came back after they kidnapped him. Daryl replies, "Maybe I'm stupid too."
Abraham cocks his gun and looks out a window. We see a zombie trapped on the roof of a building. It looks like a soldier. Abraham goes to the military truck and finds some grenade launchers in the back along with a box of cigars. Abraham walks over to the zombie and gets right in its face. The zombie tries to bite him. Abraham shouts at the zombie and eventually backs away. Does he see himself in the zombie? What he could have become if he had not met Eugene and received a mission/reason to live? He walks back to the truck and pulls a cigar out of the box and lights it. He sits in the back of the truck and smokes. The zombie's arm breaks through the pole and he falls to the ground leaving the grenade launcher hanging on the pole. Abraham comes back to Sasha's location with his newly found treasure. He is not worried about Rick and the others. He knows Rick can handle it. They have everything waiting for them back in Alexandria. "The table is set for the rest of our lives. And I hope those years to be long and fruitful, I see that time for me and I've been feeling the urge to make some plays before the great cosmic Pete comes to cut my throat unceremoniously and I rule my last breath." He would like to get to know Sasha better. Is that one of his plays? She wants to know what makes him think she'll want that. "A man can tell." Is this another new couple for the show?
Daryl asks the man about the people that were following them. As things got harder people got harder. People will trade anything for safety. "Everything. So they got nothing left just existing." Daryl says safety no longer exists and you can't promise that. The girl, Tina, runs off ahead. They find a burnt greenhouse. Carla and Delly. Tina and Honey (the other woman) used to babysit for them. Two bodies lie burnt on the ground. The man says they did this (when they burned the woods). Honey says we did this. The zombies move as Tina goes to lay flowers on them and they bite her. Daryl kills the zombies. Daryl and the man dig graves. Daryl asks the man the "questions" Rick created. He killed a couple dozen but no people. There is no going back from killing people. Daryl tells them about Alexandria. The man just keeps digging. Daryl takes them back to his motorcycle. He will take them back to Abraham and Sasha. He doesn't know if they are alive. He hears the man cock the gun and drops his bike. He realizes the people are up to no good but it is too late. The man points the gun at Daryl and then they take his crossbow and bike. Honey gives Daryl some bandages and says "Sorry." Daryl replies, "You're gonna be." He pulls out the figurine the man carved. He walks through the wood and stops at the zombie he first found on the ground. He walks over to the ground and brushes dirt off of a sign. He pulls some branches and finds a truck for a fuel company. The license plate read PATTY. He kills the zombie inside. Abraham has put on the jacket belonging to the dead military officer. They hear a truck outside and ready their weapons. They chuckle. We see all three of them driving down the road in Daryl's new ride. Daryl calls to Rick on the walkie. We hear garbled voice say, "Help".
Final Thoughts
- Who are the men that followed Daryl's kidnappers? I don't think they are Wolves. Unlike the wolves they carry guns and walkies and seem a little more organized.
SPOILER ALERT: I think this group could be part of Negan's group from the comic. They recently announced that Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been cast as Negan so it is a possibility we will finally see him on the Walking Dead.
- Honey and her man will most definitely be sorry. Daryl let them treat him like crap, he saved their lives, and offered them the safety of Alexandria and they betrayed him.
- Who asked for help? Glenn? The man who stole Daryl's bike? Wade or someone from his group? Someone back in Alexndria?
- Easter egg: Cherokee Rose by zombie
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