You started something.
Someone (Carol) calling for someone (a man) to come out slowly. Rosary on the ground. A puddle of blood. A gunshot.
Carol's note to Tobin. Carol sews up a jacket. She packs a bag with food. Tobin calls her name and she hides the bag under the bed. He hurt his hand and went to the infirmary. It's quiet now without Denise. He knew her since the beginning. His voice fades as Carol only half listens to what he says. She keeps thinking about Tara and how she will feel when she finds out Denise is dead. He tells her everything will be okay and they kiss. That night she grabs her things and sneaks out of the house as Tobin sleeps.
The next morning we see Sasha and Rosita on guard duty. Carl grabs a gun from the armory. On the grip is a picture of a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Glenn and Maggie shower together. We see Maggie's bruises from her abduction. Daryl sits on his bike holding the key chain with Dennis written on it. Abraham and Sasha chat. She gives him a cigar and they smile at each other. Rosita watches them.
We see Judith on the baby monitor. Rick and Michonne lie in bed together. She reaches for an apple and takes a bite then hands it to him to take a bite. They cuddle like a happy couple. "This is good." He says. Maggie is worried about an attack. Rick says when they come they will end it. "The world is ours and we know how to take it. Everything we need is right here inside these walls. We're not losing any of it again." Famous last words. Maggie is organizing the weapons. They are going to hide a few in case anyone gets in. Daryl rides his bike to the gate. He is leaving. Glenn goes to stop him. Glenn and Michonne climb in a truck and follow him out. Abraham tries to go out with them but Rosita tells him to take her place in guard duty because she knows where Daryl is going. Tobin gives Rick Carol's note. No one saw anything. Abraham tells Rick that Daryl left and the others followed him. Tobin notices that a car is missing. Morgan asks to see the note. He tells Rick he is going to find Carol. Rick joins Morgan and gives orders that no one else is to leave and that they are to be ready for a fight
A car with spikes all over it drives down the road. Carol is driving. She sees a truck approaching from the opposite direction. Three men shoot at her from the truck. Her tires are shot out and she stops the car. The three men stare at her from the back of the truck. She clutches the rosary in one hand. One of the men calls out to her, "Hands up." She puts her hands up and asks them not to hurt her. The rosary hangs down from out of her hand. She says she just has a car and a knife for the dead. He says she has information where she's from and where she is going. She says she is Nancy from Montclair. She kept moving and is not really going anywhere. He wants to know where she is from. Is she from Alexandria? The cars in Alexandria have spikes through them just like hers. He says they were on their way to Alexandria and will give her a ride back. She shakes and looks down at the rosary. The men leer at her. She starts to cry. "It doesn't have to be this way . . . no one has to get hurt." Shots ring out. The men fall down dead. Carol shot them with a gun she had hidden up her sleeve (that's what she was sewing into her jacket at the beginning of the episode). One of the men gets out of the car shooting at her. She hides behind the car and he inches towards her. She grabs one of the spikes and shoves it through him. She creeps around the car and grabs his weapons. Then she slowly walks to the truck. She sees someones foot. She tells him to walk out slowly (what we heard at the beginning of the episode). He grabs a knife and lunges towards her. We see a puddle of blood and hear a gun shot.
Enid grabs food from the pantry as Maggie walks in. Enid hands her a jar of pickles and tells Maggie to rest. She will take her shift. She wants to help. Morgan tells Rick he didn't have to come with him. Rick said they had to try. Tire tracks pointed east so they will go east. Morgan says the Savior's compound was west. Rick says Morgan doesn't know Carol. Morgan says he got to know her a little. Morgan believes there is no right. "It's just the wrong that doesn't pull you down." "It hasn't pulled me down." says Rick. "I think it will. 'Cause I know you." Another man that was in the truck survived. He looks around at his dead friends. He finds the man that Carol shot last still alive on the ground. He tells the man to let it go. He gets out of the truck. We see another car approach. It is Morgan and Rick. They stop when they get to the truck. Rick recognizes Carol's car. They don't see Carol. Rick approaches the man on the ground and asks where Carol is. The man doesn't respond and Rick stabs him in the head. They cautiously walk around the car. Rick says these men were Saviors. Morgan approaches one of the zombie Saviors eating another dead Savior. Morgan says their is blood on the car; Carol could be hurt. Rick is proud of Carol killing four men. She's a force of nature. Morgan tells Rick she left because she couldn't kill. Rick replies sometimes you have to kill. Morgan notices a blood trail going into the fields. Rick says she could've died there even if her body isn't there. He notices that the Saviors were close to Alexandria. There were more Saviors than they thought. They didn't end it. Morgan, "No. You started something." The lone Savior survivor walks out of his hiding place in the woods. He looks down at the ground and picks up Carol's rosary. He follows after Rick and Morgan.
Daryl and the others are back at the tracks where Denise was killed. A zombie is munching on one of the Saviors they killed. Michonne finds Daryl's bike hidden in the bushes. She tells Glenn they should let Daryl do this. Glenn says maybe Daryl is going to get himself killed. Which way did Dwight run? She points the way and they follow it. Daryl walks through a field cautiously looking down at the ground. He hears something and fires his crossbow. It was Rosita. She tells him to watch out. He says they shouldn't have come. Michonne says he shouldn't have left. He is mad that he helped Dwight. He is going to do what he should have done before. Glenn says Denise is gone. "You are doing this for you. . . We need you. Everyone back there needs us right now. It's gonna to go wrong out here." Michonne says "We'll square it. I will. I promise you. Just come back." Daryl, "I can't. Man, I can't!" "I can't either." says Rosita and follows after Daryl. Glenn is worried the Saviors are already at Alexandria. He says, "We need them alive. We need to find out more." Michonne agrees. "We just got stuck with each other. We were lucky. We figured it all out together. It felt like we did. After everything we did. The world is not what we thought it was. Hilltop, the Saviors, is bigger." Someone whistles and several armed men appear in the woods. Dwight steps out from behind a tree pointing a gun at them and says, "Hi."
Morgan and Rick walk down a field and find a blood trail. Morgan asks Rick if he is out there because Carol is his friend. "I'm out here 'cause she's my family." Morgan says that Rick sent her away after what she did at the prison. If it happened today Rick would thank her. She was right to do it. "Ya but, this was back then and you didn't kill her. You sent her away, Rick. And she came back and saved all y'all. People can come back, Rick." They see a female zombie that looks like Carol and run towards it. It's not Carol. They walk up to a farm. They find dead bodies everywhere. They stumble upon a man killing a zombie. Rick orders for the man to come out. He won't. The zombies are too close. The man says he was looking for his horse. The man says he has not seen Carol. The dead are coming and he tells them to run. Rick shoots at the man but Morgan pushes him so he misses. The zombies attack and they kill them all. The man was using a spear from Hilltop. Rick thinks the man might be a Savior. Rick, "I don't take chances anymore." Morgan tells him about the wolf. His first encounter in the woods and finding him in Alexandria and keeping the wolf locked up. "I could have killed him but all life is precious . . . I knew he could change." He tells him everything that happened with Carol and the wolf and Denise. How the wolf saved Denise's life and how Denise was then able to save Carl. "It's all a circle. Everything gets a return." He tells Rick to go home where he is needed. He shouldn't take any more chances. Morgan says he will find Carol somehow. Rick says, "You're coming back." "Ya, but if I don't, don't come looking." Rick offers Morgan his gun. Morgan reluctantly takes it. Rick tells him that Michonne did steal the protein bar. Morgan knew all along. A little bit of levity in an intense episode.
Rick returns alone. He asks about Michonne. Abraham tells him she is still out there. Rick looks worried. Abraham asks if he is afraid to go back to it (a relationship) with somebody close? "Yeah. Yeah" Rick responds. "Me too. But now, I think I am much more ready to tear the world a new asshole." Rick chuckles and nods in agreement. They stare out the gate. Maggie sits in her house. Enid knocks on the door. Enid wants to know why Maggie was looking for her. Maggie needs Enid's help. She has Enid cut her hair. Maggie says she cut her hair because she has to keep going and doesn't want anything getting in her way. Maggie looks to be in pain. She screams and clutches her abdomen. Glenn and Michonne are gagged and tied. Daryl and Rosita sneak up. Glenn shakes his head no. Daryl says shh. Glenn grunts to get Daryl's attention but it is too late. Dwight and some others come up from behind. A gun shot and blood. Dwight says, "You'll be alright." Daryl cannot be dead!!!!
Final Thoughts
- On watching this episode a second time it looks like Daryl was shot in the shoulder. See the screen shot above. I certainly hope so. If not I will riot. And yes I do have one of those t-shirts.
- I certainly hope Maggie's baby is okay. Maybe she'll be able to get to Hilltop before anything happens.
- Glenn and Maggie really need to stick together. Glenn should stay in Alexandria to keep it safe. Michonne and Rosita could easily have gone after Daryl by themselves. I am still worried they will kill Maggie off.
- I'm really liking the bond that Maggie and Enid have developed. I think Glenn's talk really sunk in for Enid and she is accepting Maggie's friendship in her life. She needs parental guidance or sisterly guidance. She is still a kid.
- Will Morgan find Carol in time? I think he will find her. He found Rick after all that time. Will he bring Carol back or will he and Carol go off together to survive without killing now that they are of the same opinion?
- We know that Negan will make his appearance in the season finale. He was even alluded to in this episode with the gun that Carl was looking at. It has a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire which is Negan's weapon of choice. What is going to happen when they encounter Negan? There are more Saviors than they expected and the Saviors are out for revenge. Like Morgan said, they started something. They messed with a hornet's nest and now they are going to get stung.
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