The cost.
Morgan in the woods shakes his head as he stares at a truck. He turns around and sees dead Gavin staring at him. Gavin says, "You know what it is. You were supposed to." Morgan yells no and tries to attack Gavin but he disappears. He hears a horn honk and rushes to his car and pushes the horn. Several people from Alexandria and Hilltop honk their horns. Henry asks for a gun but Ezekiel won't let him fight. He is to guard the house. Henry appeals to Carol but she says if he goes he will die. Ezekiel orders him to protect the Hilltoppers. Siddiq helps a Hilltopper in their medical building. She tells him he doesn't know enough of anything and that is more dangerous than not knowing anything at all. He knows he hasn't done a lot but he is ready to help. "Stop asking me what I've done and start telling me what to do besides where to put the damn blankets." She says she likes him and to get ready. Night falls on Hilltop. Jerry sees the caravan of Saviors arriving and he signals to Maggie.
The Saviors drive over nails on the road destroying their tires. Simon orders the Saviors to remove the nails. Maggie is heard on the walkie asking to talk to Negan. Simon answers saying he is Negan. Maggie answers that she is the widow. He says he is speaking on behalf of Negan. He says her people are going to have to pay. She says his 38 Saviors are alive but they won't stay that way if they don't leave. She allows Alden (the blonde Savior) to speak over the walkie. Simon says screw those captured Saviors. "Our goal is not merely infection, it is conclusion." Dwight says that this isn't what Negan would want. Negan could still be alive. Does he want to face Negan and the consequences if Negan shows up? Daryl drives towards the Saviors shooting at them. One of the cars follows him into Hilltop just as a school bus is driven in front of it. The Saviors get out and are shot at by the Hilltoppers. Saviors shoot arrows in retaliation. Maggie orders the Hilltoppers to lock the prisoners in her office. Alden says he wants to fight for her but she won't let him. Maggie wonders where "he" is. Is that Rick? The fighting continues. Tobin gets cut but just as a Savior is about to finish him off the Savior is shot. Carol goes over to him and he is bleeding badly. Simon gets mad at Dwight for not participating in the killing. Siddiq goes to help Tobin. Daryl sees Tara is about to be attacked by Simon so he calls out to her. She turns around Dwight shoots her with an arrow. A light goes out at the house and Michonne tells Daryl that is the signal from Maggie. Ezekiel and Rosita shoot out all of the headlights of the cars. Silence. Simon peaks out around a car. He can't see anything. All is dark and quiet. Simon orders the Saviors into position. Simon and his group are to go into the house and slaughter those they find. He begins to whistle. Lights come on from some cars and the the Hilltoppers inside the house shoot at them from the windows. As they run out the gate Jesus, Rick, and some others meet them with gunfire. Rick makes his way into Hilltop killing Saviors. He almost gets Siddiq but notices who he is just in time. Morgan walks through Hilltop and sees ghost Gavin who repeats, "You know what it is." Morgan ignores him and continues. The Saviors leave and Maggie and Rick shoot at them. She wanted all of them dead. Negan most of all. Rick says he did too. Rick didn't see Negan at Hilltop. He saw him earlier and tried and failed to kill him. She thanks him.
Zombies bang on the walls of Hilltop. Maggie tells Enid they don't have the resources for another attack and she should prepare to leave. Daryl tells Tara she shouldn't be up and about but she says it was just a scratch as she rubs her arm. Daryl is mad that Dwight is back with the Saviors. Tara says that they were lucky that they ended up with Maggie. She reminds him that she used to be with the Governor. He says she was with them but not a part of them. She says even Merle was with the Governor. Daryl responds, "My brother ran the wrong way his whole life." He says if Merle was still alive and he had stayed with him they would have joined the Saviors or someone like them. He asks her if she's fine with Dwight killing Denise. She says she will hate him forever but has forgiven him since he saved her life. Daryl points out that he tried to kill her last night. She says that he helped her in the woods. He tried to help them win. Daryl responds, "I saw what I saw too."
Rick takes planks off of the windows in a bedroom. Michonne comes in with a turnip for him. He is opening the windows because the kids will need air in the heat. She offers to clean his cut but he wants to finish what he is doing first. She begins to take the planks off another window. He tells her he saw Negan at the back of the convoy. He had to try to kill him.
Jerry digs graves for the dead. Alden is brought to Maggie. She cuts off the ropes on his hand and tells him a guard will go with him outside the gates so he can bury his people. He says they are not his people and he is glad they are dead. He goes to bury them. Maggie asks Dianne what's wrong. Dianne says Maggie is a good leader. She saved lives. Maggie looks down at the row of graves and says lives were saved because those fallen sacrificed their lives. She only kept the prisoners because Negan is still alive. She sent Negan the box to make him mad and lure him to Hilltop. "I wanted my husband's grave to be the last thing he saw. Even if it came at a cost. I don't know if that makes me a good leader. I do know that the only regret I have is that Negan is not in that pile of bodies."
Carol checks in on Tobin. He says if he knew getting stabbed would get her attention he would have done it sooner. She apologizes for leaving how she did. He doesn't need an apology. She doesn't owe him anything. He wants to know if their relationship was real. She didn't want it to be real. She was pretending. Trying to live a life. She couldn't handle more death. She was scared about not pretending. He asks if she is going to leave again. She doesn't know. "I think I might just accept that some of us are lucky enough to just live, some of us are lucky enough to just fight." He asks, "Even after it ends?" She answers, "I don't think it ends." He says the end of the fight is what they are fighting for. She says, "Winning just means we get tomorrow. Maybe one more night. Maybe one more morning. After that, no guarantees." Jesus locks up the prisoners. We see Henry grabs a gun. Zoom in on the grandfather clock.
Ricks reloads his gun. Siddiq offers to treat his wound so it won't get infected. He tells Rick there is a prayer for the dead. It ends "Do not send us astray after 'them' those who died . . ." Rick interrupts him and walks away. Maggie checks on the injured. Everyone is sleeping in the main house. There are people all over the floor. She asks one of the men if he is okay. He says they are lucky to have her. Gregory was all about himself. Maggie's not like that. She nods and looks over at her people sleeping on the floor. Tobin sleeps. His gasps and takes a final breath. He dies at 2:13 am. At 3:26 am one of the Hilltoppers wakes up and checks on one of the injured who has a fever. Tobin has reanimated and attacks the man as he goes out to get the doctor. A woman on patrol notices the door to the infirmary open. She looks in and sees blood but before she can do anything Tobin gets her too. Inside everybody sleeps. The reanimated dead walk in through the open door. The man Maggie was talking to earlier has also turned. He falls down the stairs as the others come in.
Henry walks outside towards the prisoner holding pen with his gun. He taps Gregory on the shoulder. Gregory wants him to let him out. Henry wants to know who killed his brother. Gregory says he doesn't know because he is not one of them. Gregory wants Henry to give him the gun. He says killing the Saviors won't bring his brother back. Henry says it might not bring his brother back but it will make him feel better. Alden wakes up. Henry says he will start shooting the prisoners until someone tells him who killed Ben. Alden says his brother died too. He says killing the Savior won't make him feel better for long. He knows. Screaming can be heard coming from the house. The house is in chaos. People are being eaten by zombies in the dark. Daryl kills one of the zombies. Ezekiel kills another one. Siddiq asks for Rick's help to cut off the arm of one of the men bitten by a zombie. Michonne kills a zombie and Jesus guides people out. Henry asks Jared if he killed Ben. Jared says he doesn't know what Henry is talking about. Henry unlocks the gate and comes in. The Savior all raise their hands as he aims their gun at them. Alden says that he was also mad when his brother died. He says, "But words are a lot easier to live with than actions, all right?" Henry announces, "Be a man, step forward, so I don't have to kill all your friends." He begins to count to ten. A zombie bites one of the Saviors. Chaos ensues. Henry begins to shoot but is tackled by Jared. Jared takes the gun and tells the Saviors to run. Gregory looks down at Henry and then runs away.
Rick, Morgan, and Daryl go through the house killing zombies. Daryl wants to know what happened. The zombies are all their own people. Zombie Tobin attacks a woman. Carol comes to her aid. When she sees that it's Tobin she stares but still kills him. When the others arrive she tells them that Tobin wasn't bitten but he still turned. Rick tells them that when he last saw Negan his bat was covered in zombie blood. They figure out Negan's plan. The man that is lying ill on the bed says it is the fever. It makes sense now (why he has a fever). He looks at his arm and asks them to kill him. He begs. Tara, Rosita, and Enid are in the room with the babies. Rick walks in and tells them the house is clear. Tara asks how it happened and Daryl tells them the Saviors infected their weapons. So the injured turned. Tara just says okay. Daryl says to Tara, "When we were out there, and you said you were done waiting, I coulda killed him. I shoulda." Tara says that Dwight wanted to be with Rick's group. "And no matter what he did or how hard he tried, I wanted him dead. I just couldn't let it be anything else. Karma's a bitch, right?" Siddiq runs through Hilltop. Alden helps him. Maggie and some others point their guns at him. He tells her several Saviors left but some are trying to close the gate to keep the zombies out. Maggie shoots a zombie. Siddiq tells her came to check on the prisoners but found the empty pen. Maggie asks where the Saviors went. Alden tells her they just ran. She wants to know why he didn't run. He says, 'You saw what we mean to Negan and Simon. Which might be a dumb thing to say it doesn't make us worth much to your people either, but those of us that stayed, stayed. We had plenty of chances to run."
The next morning Carol and Ezekiel look for Henry. Enid tells them that Henry broke into the pen before the Saviors escaped. They run to look for Henry. Morgan stays behind. Ghost Gavin appears again saying the same thing. Morgan shakes his head. Gavin screams the same thing over and over. Jerry and Jesus dig more graves. Dianne asks Maggie, "What is it?" Maggie says, "The cost." She looks out at three rows of graves.
Final Thoughts
- I believe Dwight shot Tara on purpose to stop Simon from hurting her. The question is whether or not his arrows were poisoned with zombie blood. I don't think they were. I don't think he would do that to Tara.
- Where is Henry? Did the Saviors take him? Did Gregory grow a conscience and come back for him? Or did he run after the Saviors?
- I'm glad that Tobin got some closure from Carol before he died.
- I like that Siddiq stepped up this episode. He didn't take any crap from the doctor at the infirmary. He tried to reconcile with Rick but that will take some time. Rick isn't ready to deal with Carl's death so he can't deal with Siddiq. But it does look like he might by the end of the season. He quotes Siddiq in those scenes where he is bleeding and crying.
- Is ghost Gavin referring to the fact that Henry killed him instead of Morgan and that Morgan lied to Henry?
- Will Hilltop accept Gavin and the other penitent Saviors? They chose to stay when given the opportunity to leave.
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