The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 12 "Say Yes"

 Anything is possible until your heart stops beating.

Rick and Michonne sitting by a van in the woods, busting into a house looking for supplies, having sex, sitting by the van. Rick looks at a map. They need batteries for the walkie to know what the Saviors are up to. They break into a factory in search of supplies, more sex. They walk through the woods. Rick asks why she is smiling. Her response,"We're fighting the fight." They hear something and go towards it. They see two Saviors hitting golf balls. They look at the supplies in the back of the men's truck. The next minute they are back in their van with supplies they stole. Michonne wants to know when they will go back. Rick wants to keep going a little more. Another day or two.

Rosita takes out her stitches. Tara shows up. Tara tells her, "It's gonna work out. . . we've the numbers to fight now and we just need to find some guns." Rosita says she can't wait. She doesn't know how long it will be until they get the guns but she can't wait. Tara tells Rosita to save her attitude for the Saviors. Rosita tells Tara she is going to find the guns they need and then she walks away.

Michonne smiles at a sleeping Rick as she drives. As she is making coffee by the side of the van she hears a noise and turns to find a deer. She goes to the van and grabs a gun. Rick follows her. They creep through the woods but the deer is gone. He says he owes her a deer from when the Saviors came and they took the deer she had killed. She points something out to Rick. They walk towards a chain link fence. A zombie walks by. It is wearing a military uniform and carrying a gun. Rick picks up a bullet casing and sniffs it. Michonne says something serious happened in this place. Rick thinks there might be some serious guns there. Several zombies can be heard. Rosita wanders by an abandoned house. She sees a gun lying by the doorway. As she goes towards the door a zombie comes out and heads towards her. She slices at the zombie with her machete and picks up what turns out to be a toy gun. She throws it in anger. Rick and Michonne climb up to the top of a building. They walk towards the zombie sounds. A huge group of zombies roam a field where a fair had been set up behind the building. Rick and Michonne believe they have found their guns. They smile. Michonne uses a sniper rifle and starts to shoot at an arcade game. Suddenly the floor underneath them crumbles and they fall. They both laugh.

Michonne and Rick look around the room and see several boxes of ready to eat meals and canned goods. They laugh at their good fortune. Gabriel sits in his church. Rosita walks in and tells him she didn't find any guns. She had a gun and was prepared to kill Negan even if it cost her life. She is mad at Gabriel because she listened to him. He tells her, "I said you weren't supposed to die and that you shouldn't do the thing that you were planning to do because we needed you. Still do. Even a fool like me can see that. It's easier to be dead and if it's my fault you are still alive well, I'm just gonna have to live with that. I decide to meddle. I did something that a knew was right. I knew the stakes were very high. You can certainly blame me for the fact that you have a life. But after that, what are you going to do with it?  How are you gonna make what needs to happen happen? Anything is possible until your heart stops beating. Certainly more than yelling at a fool." She walks away without saying a word.

Rick and Michonne open the boxes filled with ready to eat meals and canned goods. Michonne wants to know what happens after they get the guns to Jadis and defeat Negan. How do they reorder the world after that? Rick believes the communities can do that together. Michonne wants to know who will be in charge. She thinks Rick should be in charge. Rick does not want that. He says, "But the two of us, you and me, reordering things together. I want that. If it's something you wanted." She smiles and says "Yeah." They kiss. He says they can take their time getting the guns. The place is clear and locked up tight. He pulls out a bag of chili with mac and cheese. She takes it from him smiling. Later that night Rick sits in bed with his head in his hands.

Tara fiddles with the seashell bracelet Cyndie gave her. Judith looks up and smiles at her. Tara gives her the bracelet. She tells Judith about Cyndie risking her life for Tara. Tara knows Rick won't leave the Oceanside group without their guns. The group should fight with them since the Saviors killed their men. But Oceanside just wants to hide. "What makes our lives worth more than theirs?"


Zombies wander around the fairground. Rick and Michonne cautiously walk up to it. Michonne notices the walkers in the field are not enclosed. Rick says they need to get the walkers by them first then the ones in the field. He will use a car while Michonne distracts the other eight and kills them with her katana. He knows she can handle eight. Rick gets to the car and finds a zombie through the windshield that grabs at him. He tries to pull it out but only manages to pull off its foot and then its lower body. In the meantime, Michonne kills zombie after zombie. Rick finally manages to pull out the zombie and starts pushing the car. Michonne helps him. Gunfire erupts. One of the soldier zombies gets stuck on some rebar that triggers its gun. Rick and Michonne get trapped in the car that is now surrounded by zombies.

Rick and Michonne climb out of the sun roof and jump over a fence. They start killing zombies that approach the fence but the fence topples under the weight of the zombies and the zombies follow them. Michonne suggests they break them up into smaller groups. Rick says they can just go but he knows they can do this. She knows that they can too. He makes noise to attract some zombies towards him and she takes the other half. They kill zombie after zombie. She has eight more to kill and he has ten. He looks over to his left and sees the deer. He climbs up the Ferris wheel and goes to shoot the deer when he sees a bunch of zombies with their hands tied going towards it. The deer runs away and Rick falls. He shoots at the zombies as Michonne runs to help. She gets there to find a group of zombies gathered around eating what she assumes is Rick. She looks stunned and tears fall. She drops her katana. She shakes her head as several zombies walk towards her. Then Rick pops out of a stand and throws her katana to her. They finish killing off the zombies and she runs towards him. They hug. He still owes her a deer. They pick up gun after gun. Michonne sits in the field and cries as Rick looks on.

As they drive back Michonne looks like she is in shock. Rick looks at her concerned. He stops the van and turns to her. He would have liked to have stayed out a couple of days more. He hasn't been sleeping thinking about what they lost, his friends. How Glenn saved him at the beginning but he couldn't save Glenn. He continues, "We're gonna fight them. That's what happens next. And we're gonna lose people. Maybe a lot of them, maybe even each other. Even then it'll be worth it." Michonne replies, "When I thought that . . . I can't lose you." He says, "You asked me what kind of life we had just surrendering. It wasn't a life. What we did back there, what we're doing now. Making a future for Judith, for Glenn and Maggie's baby. Fighting the fight. That's living. You showed me that. You can lose me. I can lose you. We can lose our friends, people we love. It's not about us anymore. It's about a future. And if it's me that doesn't make it you'll have to lead the others forward because you're the one who can." She asks, "How do you know?" He answers, "Because you led me here."

Jadis inspects the guns. She wants to know if they are operational. She says the 63 guns are not enough. She wants twice as many. Rick says they are keeping ten for themselves. Jadis agrees to nine and the return of the cat statue. Rick says twenty, keep the cat, and they fight together. She agrees. "More soon we fight." Tara looks upset. Michonne wants to know what happens next. They have a few more days. Back at Alexandria Tara runs into Rick leaving her house. He asks if she has seen Rosita who didn't show up for guard duty. He wants to know why she was coming to see him. She says she has something to tell him. Rosita walks through Hilltop and finds Sasha by Abraham's grave. Rosita needs Sasha's help. Sasha says, "One condition. I get to take the shot." Rosita replies,"Okay." Rosita pulls out a sniper rifle so Sasha can take her shot. She tells her that Rick and Michonne found guns but they need more guns and more people. Rosita remembers everything Daryl and Carl said about the Saviors' compound. Sasha got a map from Jesus of the location for Sanctuary. Sasha is ready to kill Negan and wants to know if Rosita knows what that means. For Sasha it means that the Saviors can't catch them alive. Rosita replies, "It's a one-way ticket for both of us." Sasha says, "It is."

 
Final Thoughts

- They steal pretzels and beers form the golfing Saviors. Those are the same things that Dwight took for Sherrie.
- The candlelight dinner scene between Rick and Michonne was inspired by the end of the movie "Sixteen Candles."
- Yvette Nicole Brown made an interesting point about the conversation that Rick and Michonne have about who takes over after Negan is eliminated. Rick doesn't specifically say he wanted to rule with Michonne, he said he wanted to be with Michonne and share a life with her.
- Car zombie was a nice moment of levity. Michonne kills eight walkers while Rick tries to deal with one.
- I like how both Rick and Michonne are confident in their fighting skills that they didn't doubt that they could kill all of the zombies at the fair.
- I'm really liking Father Gabriel this season so I feel that means he will die by the end of the season. He finally found his place and is speaking truth to Rosita who needs to hear it. Too bad she has turned a deaf ear to him and reason.
- Apparently I was the only one that didn't think it was Rick that the zombies were eating. I just assumed it was the deer. Usually when a main character dies we see them die. They get eaten by zombies like T-Dog.
- Who will die, Rosita or Sasha? Or possibly both. I feel there has been more of a story line for Rosita so I am leaning towards her death. Regardless, it is both stupid and reckless to think that the two of them can destroy Negan. Even if they kill him there are plenty of his Saviors to take his place. After all, they are Negan.
- With only a few episodes left I am assuming we will see Rick meet the group at Oceanside and Sasha and Rosita's disastrous attempt at killing Negan before the big showdown between Rick and Negan. Let's hope that the showdown actually happens this season unlike the showdown between Rick and the Governor.
- Can we really trust Jadis to keep her end of the bargain? How many guns are enough?
- Does anyone care about Heath? Will he be at Oceanside? Or do we just assume he died?