Zombies eat someone. They get distracted and walk away. Gunshots are heard in the distance. The person that the zombies were eating has reanimated. It is Justin. He follows the other zombies. He walks past a sign that reads "FINAL WARNING."
Rick gets dressed while Michonne sleeps. He checks on Judith who was coughing. On the wall hang the pieces of wood that have Carl and Judith's hand prints. Rick walks through Alexandria's crops. He grabs a ripe tomato. He places it on the grass by a grave marker? He comes back to find Michonne awake. He tells her she will have to finish the charter by dinner. He says he is glad that she is in charge of Alexandria. She wants to take Judith to see Siddiq because of her cough. He's going to take the day off from the bridge work to do that. Maggie will be going to the bridge. She warns him that Maggie, Daryl, and possibly others are still upset with Rick. He says it will all work out. He thanks her for everything she's done and doing. He hints that he wants a child with her. They kiss. She says okay. "For the future."
Maggie and Kal ride a wagon. All of a sudden several Saviors walk out of the woods. She asks why they aren't working at the bridge. They are looking for a friend that went missing. She says she doesn't know anything about it. She mentions the missing ethanol and they say the people delivering it also went missing. One of the Saviors steals a tomato from the back of the truck. When she asks his name he says it's mud. Laura tells Maggie that his name is Jed and she should mark him down for the tomato. Then she thanks Maggie for bringing Sanctuary the food rations. She promises that Sanctuary will make good on the fuel as soon as they can. They head back to the bridge. Ken says the Saviors can't be believed. She says they are giving them a chance. They see zombie Justin up ahead.
Rick, Michonne, and Judith are having a family day. Rick is getting examined by Siddiq as Judith looks on. They walk down the street holding hands. They play hide and seek. Michonne teaches Judith how to fight with a stick. They have a picnic. Rick reads to Judith "The Wizard of Oz." One of the Alexandrians runs up to them. Michonne goes to talk to him. He tells her about the missing Savior the others were looking for. He was found dead but his death doesn't appear to be an accident. Someone killed him. Michonne and Rick look concerned. They hold hands.
Justin's body has been brought to the bridge campsite. The Saviors are getting mad at the others saying they want them dead. Alden yells for everyone to stop. Jed says Alden is not one of them. Alden says "us" means all of them. Carol steps in. Laura steps in. The Saviors want guns to protect themselves. Daryl says no guns. The Saviors start accusing people of killing Justin from Daryl to Anne. They grab axes. The others aim their weapons on them. Gabriel steps forward but Rick rides up on a horse and stops them. Laura tells the others to let it go. Alden says he will talk to Rick and find a way to make everyone safe. Rick orders them to start the redirect and pair off to work the grid. Everyone disperses. Rick asks Gabriel if he knows where Anne was last night. Gabriel says she was on watch with him. Rick tells Gabriel to keep an eye on her. Alden wants Rick to give a couple of guns to some trustworthy Saviors to help calm them down. Maggie says no guns for any of the Saviors. She says that was a part of the deal. He says that she trusts him now and should trust other Saviors that have made a change (I'm thinking about Laura). Rick says they need to figure out who killed Justin before arming anyone. Maggie doesn't like the idea. Rick brings up the point that the deal she put in place makes the Saviors the majority of the work force and they deserve to be safe. She nods in agreement. She asks who he thinks killed Justin. Rick looks over at Daryl. Gabriel asks Anne if she is alright. She says she didn't do anything. He says he knows. He tells her he told Rick that she was with him all night but he left after they were done having sex. He asks if she saw anything that could help explain what happened to Justin. She responds, "You think I'm hiding something?"
Daryl sharpens his knife. Rick sits by him. Daryl tells him to ask. Rick says the wound on Justin looks like a puncture from an arrow. Daryl asks if Rick really thinks he did it. Rick says no but others do. Daryl tells him if he had killed Justin he would have done so in plain sight. True, Daryl isn't the kind to stab someone in the back He doesn't know who but he knows why. This was always going to happen by bringing the Saviors to join them. "Why do they get this future? And Glenn don't? Abraham? Sasha? You ever think about what they want? What they'd do, if they could?" Rick does think about that. For awhile he wanted the Saviors dead too. "But killing each other when the world already belongs to the dead? It's not the way, not anymore." Daryl begins to go back to work. Rick knows Daryl doesn't agree but he wants him to try. To let others see him try. "And maybe everyone moves past what's happened to what could happen and maybe, just maybe, it'd be one of the best decisions you ever made. Like not killing a guy who left your brother on a rooftop to die."
Maggie walks the grid with Cyndie. She hears over the walkie everyone calling in their grid. She sees a couple of zombies and lets the others know over the walkie. Cyndie says there is a house over there and maybe that's where the zombies are headed. She used to live nearby before Oceanside. Several zombies surround a boarded up house. Maggie says they have to take the zombies out. She hands Cyndie a pitchfork and tells her to head towards the roof to stop the banging from the roof tile. She whistles and calls the zombies over. Cyndie walks toward the house. One zombie stands there. She kills it. When she walks up to the house she sees several zombie hands sticking out form the boarded up door. She falls through the porch and zombies begin to spill out. Maggie comes to her aid killing zombie after zombie. Cyndie struggles to kill a zombie and an arrow comes through it's head. Rick, Daryl, and Rosita are there as back up. Rosita asks what happened to group five. They should have arrived first. Rick calls over the walkie but nobody responds. They arrive at grid five's location. They find Beatrice on the floor. Someone hit her from behind. She doesn't know what happened to the rest of her group. Maggie says whoever attacked took Arat (a Savior that was part of the group). Back at the camp they discuss what to do. They need to find Arat. For the moment they are telling everyone she is on watch duty. One more missing Savior will only worsen the situation. Jerry pipes up. What do they do when they find the perp. "Is it gonna be a 'Gregory' or a 'Negan'?" Rick and Maggie look at each other. Cyndie says when the time comes the guilty party will get what they deserve. Rick orders everyone to pair up and look for Arat.
Rick and Carol walk through the woods looking for Arat. He asks Carol if the Saviors should be a part of all this. She responds, "It's not your choice or mine. They just have to want it like the rest of us. Today, I saw it starting again, and I just wanted to pull that trigger. End it before it begins. 'Cause if we don't find Arat, we're gonna have a fight whether we want it or not." Rick says he won't and can't let it come to that. "Every day since I put Negan in that cell . . . I have this moment, usually right when I wake up, this feeling that I should go down there and kill him. To keep going, finish them all. And in that moment, it's all I want. But, then, I remember everyone we've lost, not just to the Saviors. But the whole way. And I know I need to honor them. To build life, not take it. Because it's us or the dead. And every life counts now."
Daryl and Maggie search together. He asks if she agrees with this or she is just going along with Rick's plan to be nice. She's not sure. Neither is he. She wishes she could look forward and not back but every time she looks at Hershel she sees things the way they might have been and she can't let it go. He tells her she doesn't have to. He hasn't. She says, "What Rick's doing is right for the future. Better for Hershel." They hear a zombie growl. It is crawling towards a dead body. She kills it. Daryl looks at the body and finds an arrow in it. He knows who took Arat.
Anne returns to her former dumpster home. She puts her flashlight down and pulls out a walkie from a box. She turns it on and says, "It's Jadis. I know you're in range. I saw the helicopter last night." A man replies over the walkie, "What do you have? An A or a B?" She asks if he took the Saviors. He says, "No pickups. But the deal still stands. Will you have an A or a B." She says neither. It's just her. She's paid her share. He says she's been compensated. She wants to know what will it take. He says an A. She replies, "An A." He says, "Tomorrow." Gabriel comes up behind her and asks who she was talking to. He asks if she did something to Justin. He wants to know who she was talking to and what she did. She says she did bad things but not the killing or missing people. He wants to know the truth. She traded people. He wants to know why. She did it for supplies for her people. "It didn't start that way. It just ended up there." She tried at Alexandria but when anything goes wrong she is suspected. When the Saviors went missing everyone suspected her except for Gabriel. She asks him to leave with her to another place far away. "It can be different for us." She takes him by the hand. She tells him he can't tell anyone. "But if you could trust me, and help me with a small part of the deal, we can have a life like you can't imagine." He says he can't do it. He has to tell Rick. She wants him to choose her instead. He says, "Not like this." She replies, "And all this time I thought you were a B." She hits him on the head.
Carol and Rick walk through the now dark forest towards zombie sounds. Carol grabs her knife and finds Jed. Another Savior grabs her from behind and pushes her to Jed. Rick comes up and tells him to drop his weapon. Jed tells Rick to do the same. Jed says he will kill her before Rick kills him. Rick asks if Jed killed the others. Jed says no. They are not killing anyone unless they have to. He says this is about the guns. They are leaving the bridge project and want some protection to get back home. Rick says it doesn't have to be this way. Jed wants Rick to give the other Savior his gun. Carol has a knife hidden up her sleeve. Rick sees her take it out while Jed rambles on. Rick says, "You do this, there's no going back. Everything we're doing, it ends." Jed says it ended with Justin. Carol say, "It's over." Rick says it's over. Carol stabs Jed in the shoulder. Rick orders the other Savior to stand down. Rick says they will take him back to camp to fix his wound. Jed wants to know why they don't just kill him. Carol says, "'Cause every life counts."
Daryl and Maggie show up at the building from the beginning of the episode. Daryl wants to know how Maggie knows about it. She says she thinks it's where the Oceanside group lived before the Saviors killed all the men. They find the cans of missing ethanol. They hear someone say, "Beg, like you made them beg." They run towards the voice. Cyndie has her gun to Arat's head. Several Oceanside women are with her. Daryl and Maggie come up. Daryl orders them to drop their weapons. Cyndie tells Beatrice it's okay. Beatrice killed Justin because he killed her husband. Daryl lowers his crossbow. Arat begs Daryl for her life. Cyndie says she is the last one. Maggie says, "With something like this is it keeps going." Cyndie says this was their home. They were many of them then. But then the Saviors came. After Simon gave them their final warning they ran to Oceanside and tried to forget. Then Rick and his group found them and asked them to fight. They agreed because they couldn't forget what happened. "We went along because we thought we didn't have a choice. Until you hung Gregory. That's when we knew. Rick's rules aren't the only rules. You showed us the way. It was time." Maggie realized they did it because of her. Arat killed Cyndie's brother. Arat cries, "It's not like that anymore. I'm one of you now." Maggie asks her if she did it and Arat says Simon would have killed her if she didn't. Cyndie begged Arat for her brother's life. He was only eleven years old. Cyndie asks Arat to repeat what she said when she begged for her brother's life. Arat said, "No exceptions." Maggie looks at Daryl and walks away. Daryl joins her. Arat begs them They keep going and Cyndie stabs Arat in the back of the head.
The next morning all of the Saviors walk out of the bridge project. Maggie and Daryl walk through the woods. Maggie says, "Right after we agreed we'd wait." Daryl responds, "Ya, we did." Maggie continues, "Cyndie said I showed them the way. She did the same thing for me. We gave Rick's way a chance. It's time to see Negan." Daryl says, "All right." They walk down the road together. Daryl carries two cans of ethanol.
Final Thoughts
- [SPOILER ALERT] I hope Michonne ends up pregnant before the show kills off Rick.
- I'm interested in finding out who Anne has been dealing with. How do they have a helicopter? Military group? What is an A vs a B.
- Are Daryl and Maggie going to kill Negan? I kind of hope they do. Maybe that would help quell some of the rioting Saviors.
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