You want to live you take chances.
The garage door opens to Alexandria's now full pantry. Father Gabriel walks around with a rifle. Eugene takes his post at the gate with a rifle. Morgan practices his Aikido moves. Carol sits smoking on her porch holding the rosary. Morgan finishes boarding up a wall. He has made a stone prison cell (I was right!). Rick asks him why he built it. Morgan says it will give them some choices the next time. Another morning much the same as the one before. This time we see Tobin kiss Carol good-bye. Rosita gets dressed and we see Spencer in her bed. Daryl inspects his bike. He finds the figure he carved. It has been painted. Carol joins him. She gives him one of her cigarettes. She asks about the people who stole his bike. "You saved them right? Sorry. It's who you are. We're still stuck with that." Daryl responds, "No we ain't. I should've killed them." Carol walks away and leaves her cigarettes behind. Daryl calls after her and wants to know what her kidnappers did to them. She replies, "To us? They didn't do anything." She and Maggie did all the killing. Day three and the pantry is still full. The prison still stands. Carol has an ashtray filled with cigarette butts on her porch. She sits on her swing with the rosary in her hand.
Abraham and Eugene leave Alexandria. Denise watches a zombie outside of the gates from a guard tower. Spencer offers to make Rosita beef jerky stroganoff but she blows him off. He wants to define the relationship. She agrees to dinner. Denise shows Rosita and and Daryl a map. She remembers an apothecary shop that she wants to check out. Daryl says he and Rosita will go. Denise wants to go with them. She hasn't been outside since the zombiepocalypse started. She will go by herself if she has to. Daryl and Rosita reluctantly agree to go with her. They sit in a truck. Daryl drives. Denise tries to give him instructions on how to drive stick shift. Her brother taught her. Daryl ignores her and the truck continues to make unpleasant sounds. They stop when they come upon a tree blocking the road. Daryl and Rosita check it out. Rosita finds a zombie under a tree and kills it. Denise sits in the car looking at them. She looks upset. The three have to walk since the truck can't make it. Denise wants to follow the tracks but Daryl wants to take the longer route via the road. He is adamant about avoiding the tracks. Is he still upset about Terminus? Or does he just not like someone else leading the way since he is the group's tracker? Daryl and Denise go down the road but Rosita follows the tracks.
Abraham and Eugene walk down an alley while it rains. Abraham notices the changes Eugene has been making. He wants to know why. Eugene says the key to survival is to be able to change in your environment. "I've changed. I've adapted. I'm a survivor." Rosita stands by the tracks waiting for Daryl and Denise to catch up with her. Denise apologizes to her for choosing Daryl. Denise wants to know who taught Rosita how to fight. Rosita says many people did. It's just a long list of names. They make it to the apothecary shop. Daryl tells Denise that he and Rosita will go inside first. Abraham and Eugene enter a building. It looks like some kind of factory. Abraham wants to know what they are doing here. Eugene tells him they will make bullets there. Abraham wants to know what to do next. Eugene says they need to talk to Rick. A zombie comes up and Abraham goes to kill it but Eugene calls dibs. He hits it with his machete but the head is covered in metal. He struggles several times to kill it and Abraham intervenes and kills it. Eugene gets upset since he had called dibs. Abraham says that he saved Eugene's life. Eugene says, "Screw you." Abraham gets upset. Eugene tells Abraham his services are no longer required. He has outlived his usefulness. Abraham leaves and tells Eugene to find his own way back.
Daryl and Rosita enter the shop with Denise following closely behind. She almost throws up. Denise looks down on the counter and sees pictures of kids. Rosita finds a sign for a pharmacy. As Daryl tries to open the screened window Denise looks at key chains with names on them. They get the pharmacy open and Daryl says they will take it all. A thumping sound can be heard. They all stop. Rosita says it's just one and goes back to raiding the pharmacy. Denise approaches the door where the sound is emanating and opens it using her knife. She walks in and we see comics littering the floor and a play pen. She walks toward the sound and she finds a zombie with a cast on its leg. On the wall the word hush is written several times. In the sink in a bloody mess with a child's shoe sticking out of the top. We can all guess what happened. Denise runs outside. In her hand is a key chain with the name Dennis written on it. She cries. Daryl and Rosita find her outside. Daryl says she did well finding the pharmacy. Rosita says she tried to warn her that she wasn't ready.
Daryl asks Denise if her brother was older or younger. He brother Dennis was six minutes older than her. Her parents came up with the names Dennis/Denise while on a bender. Dennis was brave. He was also angry. A dangerous combination. Daryl thinks that Dennis sounds like Merle. When they get to the tracks Daryl starts to follow them. They pass abandoned cars along the way. Denise stops to inspect one of the cars. A zombie jumps up from inside. Denise wants to get the cooler that is inside the car but the others don't. They keep going down the tracks but she walks around the car with her knife and opens the other car door. She grabs the cooler but the zombie grabs it as well and ends up on top of Denise. Denise gets on top of the zombie and stops Daryl and Rosita from intervening. She kills the zombie herself. Then she pukes. Denise says, "I threw up on my glasses." She looks in the cooler and finds some sodas. Daryl gets mad her. She could have died. "You want to live you take chances." she tells him. "Just for a couple of sodas?" "No, just this one." She shows Daryl the soda she wanted him to get for Tara. She tells them that she wanted Daryl to come with her because he is brave like her brother and sometimes he makes her feel safe. She asked Rosita to come because Rosita is now alone for the first time in her life and because she is strong and that gives her hope that she can be strong too. She says she didn't tell Tara she loved her because she was scared. As she lectures them an arrow goes through her eye. Several armed men come out of the woods. One of them is the blond guy that stole Daryl's bike and he has Eugene.
Daryl stares down the blond guy (who now has a new burn scar on his face). "You got something to say to me?" Says D (or Dwight). He still has Daryl's crossbow which he used to kill Denise. Daryl tells him, "I should have killed you." "Ya you probably should've. So here we are. Kind of begs the question. Who brought this on who? She wasn't even the one I was aiming for. It's nothing personal." Eugene looks back at the woods and we see Abraham peeking out from behind some barrels. D wants to know Rosita's name. He wants them to let them into Alexandria so they can take whatever and whoever they want. If not he will kill Eugene and then them. Daryl just glares. Eugene says if he wants to kill someone he should kill Abraham that is hiding behind the barrels since he is an a-hole. One of the men goes to check it out and Eugene bites D in the crotch. Abraham starts shooting the men and Daryl and Rosita grab weapons and start killing the others. Zombies come out of the woods attracted by the noise. D and Daryl keep shooting at each other. As D and a few others run away Daryl grabs his crossbow and starts to follow them but Rosita tells him to stop. Eugene has been shot. Rosita applies pressure to the wounds then all three of them pick him up and carry him down the tracks. Daryl looks at Denise as they pass by.
Eugene lies in the infirmary. Rosita watches over him. It was just a bullet graze. The antibiotics they picked up, thanks to Denise, will save his life. Eugene wants Abraham to apologize for doubting his skills. Abraham apologizes. Abraham stands staring at one of the houses. Sasha walks out. She asks if he is okay. "You said I had choices. You have them too. Could be thirty years for us here. That's still too short." She nods and tells him to come inside. Daryl looks down at the key chain with the name Dennis on it. He throws in a grave on top of Denise's sheet covered body. He fills the grave with dirt along with Carol. She says, "You were right. I knew it when you said it." (He should have killed D and the others in the burnt forest). We hear a voice over of Carol's break up note to Tobin. "I wish it didn't have to end this way. It was never my intention to hurt you, but it's how it has to be. We have so much here, people, food, medicine, walls, everything we need to live. But what we have other people will want too and that will never change. If we survive this threat and it's not over another will be back to take its place, to take what we have. I love you all here. I do. And I'd have to kill for you. And I can't. I won't. Rick sent me away and I wasn't ever gonna come back, but everything happened and I wound up staying. But I can't anymore. I can't love anymore because I can't kill for anyone. So I'm going like a always should have. Don't come after me, please." We see everybody going through the motions of another day with a few changes. They are strengthening the walls and have cars ready and lined up by the gate. Morgan looks around and we hear the sound of the Carol's porch swing moving back and forth.
Final Thoughts
- Poor Tara, this is the second girlfriend she has lost in the zombiepocalypse. Will she feel guilty that she told Denise she loved her to cover up for her past? Or will she feel grateful that she was able to tell her she loved her before she died?
- Why is it every time we finally get to know a new character on this show they kill them off?
- I really like the interactions between Denise and Daryl this season and I wish we could've had a few more before losing her.
- What will Alexandria do without a doctor? Will this push Glenn and Maggie to Hilltop since their doctor is an obstetrician?
- How will Daryl react to Carol leaving? I think he might still try looking for her. The question is how far will she get? She left before and went back to the prison. Will she really be able to leave those she loves? She will still have to kill if she wants to survive alone out there. I still believe she will die in the season finale. She might come back to help fight Negan and sacrifice herself for her loved ones.
- I can also see Morgan going after Carol and convincing her to come back.
- I am curious to know what made Eugene think that biting a man's crotch was the only way to create a distraction? Why didn't he just fake a seizure or something?
- If they are able to make bullets this will turn things around for Alexandria. They could have all the power in this area. They have already struck a good deal with Hilltop. Who knows who else is out there and what they could get from them.
- What will the loss of Denise and Carol do to Rick. He is already heading down a very dark road. Will he go completely mad? He's already acting like the Governor.
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