Welcome home, haircut.
Fat Joey lying dead where Daryl left him. Dwight comes up, sees Joey, and then notices that one of the motorcycles is missing. We see Dwight running through Sanctuary. He opens Daryl's cell door and sees that the cell is empty. Meanwhile, Negan and the Saviors return with Eugene. Dwight goes into his bedroom and finds Daryl's clothes lying on the floor. Eugene cries as the Saviors lead him through Sanctuary. One of the Saviors opens the door to a room. It is a nice bedroom with books, TV, and a kitchenette. She tells him, "Welcome home, haircut." Eugene goes to look at some books and she tells him there are more at the library. Dwight finds the note that someone slipped under Daryl's cell. The Savior asks Eugene what he wants to eat. She insists that he can have anything he wants. At first he asks for lobster but then asks for pasta. Eugene locks the door after she leaves. He opens of the fridge and finds it filled with food. He turns on the stereo and "Easy Street" begins to play. He bobs his head to the music. Dwight sits in his room staring at the note. Someone knocks on his door. Several Saviors come in and beat him as Negan watches from the doorway.
Dwight sits in a cell. Negan bangs on the door. When Negan got back from searching for Daryl he noticed that Sherrie was gone. Dwight didn't know. Negan figured out that someone helped Daryl escape. Dwight says it wasn't Sherrie that helped Daryl. Negan wants to know if Daryl broke Dwight. Did Dwight change sides? "After everything. Who are you Dwight?" Dwight responds, "I'm Negan." Negan opens the door. Negan says that Daryl is emotional so he will either go home or come back to kill more Saviors. Negan wants Dwight to bring Sherrie back so they can sort it out. He orders the doctor to patch up Dwight. The doctor thinks Sherrie helped Daryl go because she is soft and has a big heart. Dwight on the other hand gets it and knows how to play the game. Dwight goes back to his room and grabs his bag. He looks up at a fish decoration on the wall and pulls out a pack of cigarettes from the mouth. We see one of the cigarettes has lipstick stains on it. Dwight grabs a motorcycle and looks down at the puddle of Fat Joey's blood before he drives off.
Eugene is shown around Sanctuary by the same female Savior. She tells him about the workers and the point system. He is one of the Saviors not one of the numbered workers. He sees some kid steal some food but doesn't say anything. She tells him, "You want something? You take it, haircut." She grabs a jar of pickles and hands it to him. He is taken outside where Negan is waiting. Negan tells him to say hello and asks him his name. Negan asks, "Who are you?" All the Saviors answer, "I'm Negan." Negan shows Eugene the bullet in Lucille. Negan wants to know if Eugene is a smarty-pants, if he knows things. Eugene tells him he taught himself how to cast bullets. He reads a lot. Negan says, "Oh, you really are just some asshole." Eugene says he is not. He begins to tell him all of the degrees he has and that he worked on the Human Genome Project. A zombie at the fence falls apart. Negan asks Eugene how to keep the zombies on their feet (aka stop them from decomposing). Eugene says they should smelt some iron and cover the zombies in molten metal then they won't fall apart. Negan is impressed. "Not only is it practical it is also bad-ass." Negan wants to give him a bonus. Eugene is happy with the pickles. Negan says he will send him some of his wives tonight. Sex is a no-no but he can share in their company. Eugene smiles as he is walked back to his room.
Eugene plays video games in his room while several wives sit around. One of them, Amber, is getting drunk. Another one, Frankie, asks if he wants a massage. She was a licensed therapist before. He knows that they are not there of their own volition. One of them, Tanya, says she wouldn't mind some intelligent conversation. She wants to talk about the human genome project. Eugene says he can't talk about the work he did. She asks if he could make a bomb out of bleach and a toothpick. He says no and lists the different things he would need to make a bomb. They go outside and Eugene has some latex gloves filled with helium he made out of hydrogen and some other things. A guard comes out but the wives tell him everything is cool and the guard goes back inside. Eugene is one of them now. Eugene put a beaker with some liquid in it and pours something into it to make it spill over. He then makes the balloons burst into flames with a candle.
Dwight rides up to a house. He calls out Sherrie's name. He picks up a framed photograph of him and Sherrie. Voice over of Sherrie saying if they ever got separated they should meet at the house. He finds an old post it note and compares Sherries writing from the post it and the note to Daryl. It is the same. He finds Sherrie's rings on a note. That is what we hear her saying in the voice over. "You were better than me. I let Daryl go because he reminded you of who you used to be and I wanted you to forget. . . Being there isn't better than being dead, it is worse. . . I loved who you were. I'm sorry I made you into who you are." He pulls out the cigarette with her lipstick on it. He shakes the box and his wedding ring falls out. He pulls out some pretzels and beer from his bag.
Frankie and Tanya knock on Eugene's door. They need his help. Amber just drinks and cries. Amber had to become a wife because her mother needs medicine and can't work. She can't live with it and she asked the other wives to help her end it. She wants to go to sleep and not wake up. He says if she dies in her sleep she will turn into a zombie and put everyone in danger. They say they know he can make something for her because he is a good man. He says he is not good. He then asks how much she weighs. Once he knows her exact weight he will make her something.
Eugene waits in line at Sanctuary. Then he cuts to the front. He asks for some cold capsules. The lady says the line is the line and orders him to the back. He starts to go back then turns around. He demands to know her number. He says he is the new chief engineer and he reports directly to Negan and she reports to his ass. She apologizes and gives him the cold medicine. He also takes a few other things including a bed pan and a crocheted sloth he calls a Gremblygunk. We see him making some tablets for Amber. Dwight gets examined by the doctor. The doctor asks if he found Sherrie. Dwight says he killed Sherrie. The doctor says, "We don't get to have big hearts. Remember that." Dwight gets taken down to where the people of Sanctuary and the Saviors are gathered by the open furnace. They all bow down to Negan. Negan tells Eugene to play close attention. Negan hits the doctor with Lucille. He pulls out a piece of the note Sherrie left for Dwight. He says he found it in the doctor's desk. He accuses the doctor of letting Daryl go. He says that Sherrie told Dwight everything before she died and Dwight told Negan. The doctor insists that Dwight is lying. Negan believes Dwight. Dwight pulls the iron from the fire and hands it to Negan. The doctor begs Negan not to hurt him. Eugene turns his head but the Savior forces him to look. The doctor admits he did it and apologizes to Negan. Negan steps back and says all he had to say was sorry. Negan looks up at Eugene and then grabs the doctor and pushes him into the furnace fire. Negan says it's good thing they have a spare doctor, referring to Eugene.
Eugene plays video games. Someone knocks on his door. Frankie and Tanya come in and ask if he is okay. He says he is fine. One of them asks if he made the pills. He says he did but they can't have them. He won't give them the pills because he knows they were planning to use them on Negan. They say they will tell Negan he made them to kill Negan. He says Negan will believe him over them because they are replaceable and he is not. Tanya calls him a coward. He replies, "That is a correct assessment." They leave. He eats a pickle. Someone knocks on his door. He opens the door and Negan stands there with Lucille. He asks Eugene if he likes it at Sanctuary. He says he doesn't invite everyone to be one of his Saviors. "You do not have to scared anymore. You just have to answer one question. Who are . . ." Eugene answers "I'm Negan" before Negan can even finish asking the question. The next morning Eugene stands eating a pickle and ordering some men how to pour molten iron on the zombies. Dwight joins him. Dwight asks if Eugene is on board. Dwight responds, "I'm Eugene. You're Dwight. We are Negan."
Final Thoughts
- For right now I think Eugene is acting loyal to Negan to survive. We know he is smart and a good liar and he uses those assets to survive. He was scared and Negan basically told him by being a Savior he doesn't have to scared anymore.
- How long will it be before he gets rescued? Will he get rescued?
- The success of Rick's attack on Negan will depend on how soon it happens and whether or not Dwight starts manufacturing bullets for the Saviors before the attack. With an endless supply of bullets the Saviors don't have to worry about how many guns their opponents have. It won't matter.
- It was sad to see hear Sherrie's note and see that Dwight did remember. He remembered to meet her at their old home and to bring pretzels and beer.
- It was not very smart of Negan to kill the doctor. Yes, he believes that Eugene is also a doctor but in the zombiepocalypse there is no such thing as too many doctors. Not to mention none of the degrees Eugene listed where medical degrees. He can know a lot about bacteria without knowing how to stitch up a wound or deliver a baby.
- What will happen to Sherrie? She is out there alone. Negan can still find her if she is not careful. He says he believes Dwight but I'm not sure that means to he believes him about Sherrie's death. I don't know what Daryl would do if he found her. He doesn't know she helped him escape and the last time they met he offered her a place at Alexandria and she and Dwight stole his stuff.
- Sherry's note to Dwight: "D, We always said if we got separated I should come back here and wait for you.You'd show up with beer and pretzels. You remember that? I know, you probably don't. You always said that when we started dating, You forgot to tell me you had a shitty memory. You used to get so frustrated by it, knowing you wouldn't remember those good days . . . those special days. I felt bad for you. I remember you said there was so much you wanted to hold on to and then it'd be gone. But you're lucky you don't remember things, D. I wish I could wait for you now. But I don't know if you'd come with me or if you'd take me back there or you'd kill me. You didn't want to live in that world, and I made you. I did what I did because I didn't want you to die. But now you've killed, and you've become everything you didn't want to be and it's my fault. You were better than me. Most people are. I let Daryl go because he reminded me of who you used to be. And I wanted to let you forget. I don't think I'm gonna make it out here, but you're wrong. Being there isn't better than being dead. It's worse. I hope you realize that. I hope you get away. I hope you remember the good days, even just one of them, but I don't think you will. I don't think you'll ever read this. I loved who you were. I'm sorry I made you into who you are. Goodbye. Honey."
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