This is how we live now.
Rick and Michonne lie in bed together. Michonne gets up and gears up with her katana. She goes to the fireplace and pulls out a sniper rifle and places it in her duffel bag. We see Rick watching her leave. He doesn't stop her. Michonne walks across a vast field towards an abandoned truck. She climbs on top of it and sits waiting. Rick gets Judith from her crib. Eugene
tinkers with a machine by the gate. Rosita pulls up with Spencer and demands that Eugene open the gate. Spencer explains that they are going to gather supplies to give to Negan. Spencer asks if he wants to come along and Eugene says no. Rosita responds, "That sounds about right." Eugene says he is fixing an audio player for the Saviors. Several vehicles can be heard pulling up to the gate. We see Negan's shadow. He bangs on the gate with Lucille saying, "Little pig, little pig, let me in." Spencer opens the first gate. Spencer asks, "Who are you?" Rick walks up. Negan tells him, "Do not make me have to ask." Rick responds that he is early. They were supposed to have a week. A zombie approaches and Negan hits it with Lucille. A crowd of Saviors including Dwight and Daryl stand behind him. Daryl looks like he is about to cry. Negan says he could've killed Spencer but instead chose to kill the zombie, "Service." Then he hands Lucille to Rick as he walks into Alexandria.
Negan announces, "This place is magnificent! An embarrassment of riches, as they say." Rick tries to talk to Daryl but Negan stops him. "He's the help. You don't look at him. You don't talk to him. And I don't make you chop anything off of him." He gives the same warning to Rosita who just glares in return. Negan tells Rick, "You don't decide what we take. I do." Negan gives the order and the Saviors move out to search the houses. Negan wants Rick to show him around Alexandria. Dwight walks up to Rosita. He takes her gun and then Spencer's. He then pulls out the rifles from the car. He has a job for Rosita. He wants Daryl's bike. She says it isn't here. He tells her to go get it. As she goes to get into the car he takes her hat and empties her canteen. She and Spencer drive off. Michonne sits on top of the truck ready with the rifle. She stands up, and aims at an approaching zombie. She shoots and misses. She fires and misses again and again. The zombie gets closer. She gets off of the car and kills it with her katana. She walks away. As she approaches the woods she finds a dead deer. She accidentally shot it while trying to kill the zombie.
The Saviors take furniture out of several houses. Daryl follows Negan. A Savior brings Negan a camera. It is the video Deanna shot of Rick when he first arrived in Alexandria. "I would not have messed with that guy. But that's not you anymore, is it? Nope!" Negan asks about Maggie. He figured out she was married to Glenn. "Widows, especially ones that look like that they are special. Right after their husbands go they are just empty inside. But usually not for long." Father Gabriel walks up from behind, "Would you like to pay your respects?" Negan responds, "Holy crap. You are creepy as shit. Creeping up on me wearin' that collar and that freaky-ass smile." Negan gets taken to the cemetery. "Well, this must really suck for you guys." He brings up the fact that Glenn didn't have to die. It was Daryl's fault. Gabriel and Rick make eye contact. Negan was going to ask Maggie to go back with him. A gun shot rings out. Negan glares at Rick and walks towards the sound. Carl points a gun at one of the Saviors. Rick walks into the house and tells Carl to put the gun down. The Saviors are taking all of the medicine. Carl tells Negan, "And you should go. Before you find out how dangerous we are." Negan responds, "Did you just threaten me?" Rick tells Carl to put the gun down. "Half is what I say it is. Do you want me to prove how serious, again?" Carl relents and hands the gun to Rick. Negan continues, "This whole thing reminds me that you have a lot of guns. . . I can't allow that. They're all mine now."
Olivia opens the garage door to the pantry. Rick tells her to show the Saviors to the armory. Negan points out that he is not taking any of their food. He calls Olivia fat. He is letting them keep the food because if they starve to death they won't give him anything. Rick asks, "What do you want me to say?" Negan responds, "How about a thank you? Or is that too much to ask? I'm a very reasonable man when you cooperate. Are you cooperating?" Rick says, "What does it look like?" Negan says, "I know what it looks like. But what I really wanna know is if we're gonna find all the guns back there or if maybe you've got a few just waitin' for their moment?" Rick says all the guns are there as far as he knows. Rosita and Spencer reach a spot by the railroad tracks and stop. Rosita holds a knife in her hand. Spencer walks over to the trees and pulls some branches off of Daryl's bike. He pushes it towards their car. "That's it. It's over. This is our life now. This is where Rick got us." He opens up the back of a van and places Daryl's bike in it. Rosita walks into the woods. Negan stops Daryl as he walks out of the armory with some guns. Negan pulls out a pistol and points it at Daryl. He shoots a window. A Savior comes out with the bazooka. Negan is impressed. One of the Saviors yanks Olivia up the stairs. The inventory doesn't match the log. Some guns are missing. Rick says some people left and the guns are probably with them. Negan asks Olivia if she knows where they are. She says no. Negan says, "I don't enjoy killing women. But at the end of the day Olivia, my dear, this was your responsibility." Olivia begins to cry. "Keeping track of guns? That shit is life and death."
Lucille rests on a windowsill in the church. Rick tells the Alexandrians that he thought about hiding some guns and keeping them hidden for years. But he reconsidered because no matter how many bullets they have it's not enough, they win. They need to give the two missing guns to the Saviors. He asks who has them. If they don't find them the Saviors will kill Olivia. Scott stands up and asks why the Saviors care. They will need them to protect themselves from what's outside. Aaron and Eric argue. Eric stands up. "Say we find the guns. How are we gonna get out of this?" Rick replies, "I'm not in charge anymore. Negan is." Eugene looks around. He notices that not everyone is in the church. Rosita walks in the woods towards some zombies. Spencer calls after her and draws attention to Rosita. She hides behind a tree and kills one zombie after another. Spencer finds her. Rosita has a gun. The zombies were the Saviors that killed Denise. "Don't you get it? That asshole back there (aka Dwight) took our guns because he's gonna take all our guns. This is not our life." Spencer walks away.
Rick looks out a window at Negan and Olivia. He searches the house for the guns. Gabriel reports that they have not found the guns yet. Gabriel says, "I feel like I know this is gonna work out. We'll find the guns, live through this day, and find a way to move forward, to beat this. I have faith in us. I have faith in you. Things change. You are my friend. It wasn't always this way." Rick says, "What you did with the graves, was quick thinkin', thank you." Aaron comes in and says that the guns were not in Rosita's house. Rick says they would be here in Spencer's house. Spencer's done this kind of thing before. As he paces he steps on a creaky floor board. He looks in a vent and pulls out a bunch of food and booze. He reaches in and pulls out the missing guns. A Savior questions Enid's desire to keep some green balloons. He tells her to say please again. She complies even though he is super creepy and keeps calling her little girl. Then he gives back the balloons. They were the ones Glenn used. When Rick gives the guns to Negan. Negan wants the name of the person responsible. Rick says it doesn't matter anymore. Negan says Rick needs to get everybody on board.
The Saviors begin to drive away when Rosita and Spencer get back. Rick notices Michonne hiding out in the old abandoned building. Rick asks for a second. Negan says no. Rick asks again. Negan nods. Rick walks over to Michonne. He has Lucille in his hands. "He had me hold it. I need the rifle. I know it's in the bag. I know what you're doing out there. You're practicing. We have to give up our guns. All of them. If you keep it and they find it someone dies. I am not losing you or Carl or anyone else. I'm not losing anyone else!" Negan hums as he waits. Michonne walks over with the dead deer. Rick gives the rifle to Negan. "This is something to build the relationship on. You sir, are special." Ricks says, "I'd like to ask you if Daryl can stay." Negan at first says no. But then he says maybe Daryl can sway him. He turns to Daryl but Daryl doesn't say anything. "Earn for me. If you don't have something interesting for us somebody is gonna die." He takes the deer as well. Dwight walks over to Daryl's bike. He tosses Rosita her hat back. "Did you find anything else out there?" She replies, "Just your dead friends." He gets on the bike and tells Daryl he can have it back, "Just say the word." Negan tells Rick, "So nobody died. And you know what I think. We have found our understanding. Do you want me to go? Just say those two magical words." Rick spits out the words, "Thank you." Another zombie approaches. Negan kills it. Rick grips Lucille tightly. Negan turns around, "Win-win." He takes Lucille back. They leave. Daryl looks out from the back of a truck. Rick looks at a sign on the gate that reads, "Mercy for the lost. Vengeance for the plunderers."
Rick closes the gate. He walks up to Spencer and tells him how they took the guns he had hidden because they were going to kill Olivia. Spencer responds, "You went into my house?" Rick get mad at him for hiding the food and liquor, "That's 'cause you're small, Spencer. You're weak. You got lucky with the walls. You got lucky with us." Spencer says, "We should've made a deal with them when we could've. Oh yeah, we're so lucky. . . I guess Glenn and Abraham were lucky too?" Rick says,"You say anything like that to me again I will break your jaw and knock your teeth out." Rosita says, "You had guns? Why didn't you tell me? You saw what I did to get one!" He replies, "I had them for awhile because I didn't trust Rick. 'Cause I was worried about having him in charge." Rosita pulls out the gun she hid in the car. Rick rolls out his bed covers on the floor. The Saviors took their mattresses. Michonne tells him the rifle was one of the ones they stole from Saviors. They didn't have a list? She says, "Everything we got we got from fighting." Rick responds, "They have the numbers. We play by their rules we get some kind of life." Michonne asks, "What kind of a life?" Rick tells her about Shane. He knows Judith isn't his. But he loves her, she's he's daughter, but she's not his. He had to accept that so he could keep her alive. He wants to live so he can teach her to survive. "This is how we live now." She tells him, "It's not your fault if people die." He says, "You have to accept this. All of you. Or it won't work." She helps him make the bed and says, "I'm gonna try." Michonne goes back out to the field and climbs on top of the car. She takes deep breaths and looks around. She gets down and walks. She heads to a pile of mattresses that were recently on fire. The Savior burnt their mattresses just because they could. Someone picks up a shell casing. Rosita knocks on Eugene's door. She holds the casing and says, "Make me a bullet."
Final thoughts
- I understand why Carl threatened the Saviors but it was not a smart move. Negan is vengeful. They are in no position to fight back. They should have planned their original attack on the Saviors better. They should have watched them for weeks or months to find out how many there were and how many weapons they had.
- Seeing the green balloons tugged at my heart strings.
- Why is Spencer still such a brat? Doesn't he get that he doesn't know how to survive in this world? Rick was right. He got lucky to be in Alexandria when the zombiepocalypse started.
- There's a rumor that Daryl has had his tongue cut out and that is why he never spoke. So when Dwight said that Daryl knew what to say did he mean that Daryl needed to say "I am Negan" or was he messing with him knowing that Daryl couldn't speak? I hope the rumor's not true. I don't know if that is a punishment that Negan uses in the comic.
- If you didn't already think the Saviors were jerks you definitely know they are for burning the Alexandrian's mattresses.
- How long can Maggie stay hidden from the Saviors? Someone is bound to recognize her.
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