If it wasn't us it was gonna be you.
Carol "shopping" for food at the pantry. She gathers acorns in the woods and kills a zombie while doing so. She is still wearing cardigans and baking cookies. She hands a Tupperware full of cookies to several Alexandrians. Tobin tries to say no to the cookies. She tells him to try one of them. He says they are the best beet and acorn cookies he ever had. Rick returns with the others. Rick tells Aaron to get Olivia so she can inventory the supplies he brought. He tells Sasha to gather everyone at the church so they can discuss something. He tells Carol they are going to have to fight. Morgan comes up behind Carol and tells her it's been weeks since they talked. He asks her why she didn't tell Rick about what happened. She told the others to keep it quiet. She wants to move past it. He says that her keeping the secret is as if she did it too. She says that it is not. She tells him to go. She stands stands for a minute and we see she left a cookie on Sam's grave.
Town meeting where Rick explains the deal Maggie made with Hilltop. He says that the Saviors would have eventually found them and if they tried to fight them when they are low on food they could lose. Fighting and defeating the Saviors is how they keep Alexandria. He says it is a group decision. He asks if anyone objects. Morgan stands up and asks if they can beat the Saviors. Morgan wants to compromise. Rick wants to attack them before the Saviors attack Alexandria. He wants to keep the element of surprise and kill all of the Saviors. Morgan replies that, "Where there is life there is possibility." "We are not trapped in this. None of you are trapped in this." Rick, "Morgan, they always come back." Morgan replies, "Come back when they're dead too." Rick says, "Then we'll stop them." Morgan ends with, "I'm not talking about the walkers." Haunted by the dead? Rick thinks it is a mistake to talk to the Saviors first. Aaron stands up, he won't let what happened with the Wolves happen with the Saviors. Rick ends with, "We don't shy away from it. We live, We kill them all. We don't all have to kill. But the people that are going to stay here, they do have to accept it." That last comment was aimed at Morgan.
Carol lies in bed. She gets up and writes in a journal. She is keeping track of all of the people she has killed. She has killed eighteen. Maggie talks to Glenn about going with the group to kill the Saviors. She says she will stay outside in the perimeter where it it safer. She is the one that made the deal. She feels responsible and therefore obligated to go. Carol walks around town smoking. Tobin asks her for a cigarette. At fist she says no then she sits next to him on his porch and shares her cigarette with him. He tells her. "You can do things that just terrify me." Carol, "How? How do you think I do those things?" Tobin, "You're a mom. "Was" she corrects him. "You are, it's not the cookies or the smiles, It's the hard stuff.The scary stuff. It's how you can do it. It's strength. You're a mom to most of the people here." " Carol asks, "To you too?" "No, you're something else to me." She leans in and they kiss. "Well, it's not tomorrow yet." What?! When did this happen? What happened to Daryl? Abraham packs. He tells Rosita he is moving out. She asks why and he simply replies that it happens. She won't let him leave until he tells her why. "When I first met you, I thought you were the last woman on Earth. You're not." What a douche.
Andy describes the saviors location to Rick. He draws a map for them. He tells them all he can remember. Tara tells Denise that she loves her. She wanted to say it before leaving. Tara wants her to go with her on the two week trip she is going on with Heath. Denise can't leave because she is the only doctor but she will tell Tara she loves her when she gets back. Rick and the group try to figure out where the Saviors' armory is if they even have one. Daryl says they have done more with less. Andy says the guards won't be sleeping. Rick says the guards will let them in. They are going to give the Saviors Gregory's head.
The RV and its caravan of cars stop on the road. Rick orders people around. Gabriel is part of the group. "I'm not going anywhere. I wanted to learn and you taught me for a reason." Rick asks why he is still wearing his priestly vestments. "I'm still who I was, I think. And it will be harder for them to see me in the dark." Rosita approaches Carol. She almost told everyone what Morgan did to the group. Carol defends Morgan. Morgan doesn't want to kill. Rosita says "We don't wanna kill. We don't like it. It happens." Carol smokes another cigarette. Glenn and Heath kill some zombies in the woods. They are going to cut off one of the heads and pretend it is Gregory's. Heath has never had to kill a living person. Glenn tells him he hasn't either. He asks Heath if he ever saw something that wouldn't let him eat or sleep. "Killing somebody has gotta worse than that. . . So ya I'm nervous for the whole thing." He cuts off the zombie's head. Rick says they will take a look around and scope out the place. They will go in a couple of hours before dawn. If they don't like what they see they will leave and make a new plan. "This is how we eat." Carol asks why Maggie is part of the group. Carol volunteers to stay with Maggie. She doesn't think Maggie should be out there. Rick reluctantly agrees. Jesus and Andy pick a zombie head. Jesus says the nose is wrong. Rick picks up the head and punches it to break the nose. He tells Andy to say Gregory put up a fight. "The Saviors are scary but those pricks got nothing on you." You got that right.
It's nighttime and a car drives up to a building with a giant satellite. Lights come on and a man yells, "Stop right there." The driver yells that it is Andy from Hilltop. He gets out of the car with the head. Two armed men approach him. He tries to hand the bag to them but they don't want it. He reaches in and pulls out the head. One of the men seems happy about the head the other inspects it closely. Andy tells them that he hurt his hand breaking Gregory's nose and that's why it looks that way. The man grabs the head and mimics Gregory. He tells him he will go get Craig, they will go home, and and bring supplies the following week. Daryl sneaks up behind the guard left behind and slits his throat. The others carry the body away. The other guard comes out with Craig. Michonne runs her sword through him. They hide his body and Andy and Craig go back to the car while the others go inside with their weapons at the ready. They split up down the corridors. Rick, Daryl, and Michonne go in a room. Rick finds a man sleeping inside. He holds his knife over the man's head and plunges it in his skull. He pulls out the bloody knife and moves on. Glenn and Heath find another room where two men lie sleeping. They each have a knife in their hands and approach one of the men. Glenn holds the knife over the man's head and cries as he kills him. Heath goes to kill the other man but Glenn stops him. He kills the man for Heath. Heath nods his thanks. Glenn notices pictures of people with their heads bashed in. It is a macabre collection of Polaroids reminiscent of the Governor's fish tank.
Back in the car Tara asks Gabriel if he is still a priest. He tells her how Rick and Carl taught him how to use weapons and contribute. He is still a priest. She confesses that she lied to Denise. She told Denise that she loved her to cover up the fact that she had done something like this before and didn't like it (attacking the prison with the Governor). Both Jesus and Gabriel asks if she loves Denise. She says yes. Jesus says, "Then you know what you're fighting for." Abraham and Sasha walk down a hallway. No one is in the first room and the second is locked. A man walks out of another room and slashes at Abraham. Sasha stabs the man but he hits an alarm. Maggie and Carol hear it and Maggie wants to go in. Carol won't let Maggie go. She asks Maggie what she is doing here and Maggie says she has to be there. Carol replies, "You're supposed to be someone else." A mother perhaps? Carol tells Maggie that she is staying right where she is.
Tara, Jesus, and Gabriel get out of the car. Jesus orders Andy to take Craig back to the Hilltop and he covers his face with a bandanna. Rick, Daryl, and Michonne shoot at some people. Aaron hides out in a room and kills a man, "If it wasn't us it was gonna be you." A full on gun battle ensues with everyone. Aaron tries to kick open a locked door. As the Saviors try to leave Tara shoots them. Glenn and Heath make it into a room. It is the armory. They shoot at the closed door where several Saviors had been shooting at them. They open the door and they are all dead. One man isn't quite dead. He points a gun at them and a shot rings. Jesus shot the man. "So, this is the next world." Outside, Gabriel tells an injured Savior to drop his gun. When he won't he quotes scripture and shoots the man ending with an amen.
Rick and the group make it outside to cars. Glenn tells Heath he should go back to Alexandria before going out again with Tara. He says no. Morgan makes something with a soldering iron. Heath and Tara take off. Rick talks to Michonne. She wonders which of the people they killed was Negan. A man rides out on a motorcycle. He gets shot. Daryl attacks him and asks him where he got the bike. It is Daryl's bike. A woman's voice can be heard over the man's walkie. She tells them to lower their weapons. They have Carol and Maggie.
Final Thoughts
- Carol's journal notes: R, K, D, Terminus/Courtyard 3?, Candle Woman 4, Ws 7, 18. I am assuming K is for Karen and D is for Dave. Ws is for wolves. On the talking dead they said that Candle Woman was Gareth's mother Mary form Terminus. I can't figure out who R is supposed to be. Any suggestions?
- No one made it to the end of the episode without killing the living. Even though Glenn spared Heath from killing that man in the room they still shot a bunch of people through the armory door. I still appreciate what Glenn tried to do for Heath.
- What is Morgan welding? A real prison cell?
- I get the feeling Carol might die by the end of the season. The fact that Tobin referred to her as being everyone's mom seems to be the death knell. She stood up for Morgan when Rosita wanted to tell his secret. This could be the beginning of her redemption. Usually when a character attains redemption they die. Will she sacrifice herself to save Maggie? One mother for another?
- I'm assuming this was just one building the Saviors have, probably just an outpost. We will probably learn over the next few episodes how many Saviors are left and where they really live.
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