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***There will be spoilers.***
***This is not a review. It is just my thoughts as I'm watching the show.***
Remember, I'm just writing what I see and reacting.
Welcome back, everybody!!! I'm not really looking forward to the next episodes as much as I normally do. Knowing that there are only two Rick Grimes episodes left is so depressing, almost as bad as the post Glenn episodes.
Episode opens again in bed with Rick and Michonne. They really are trying for that family. No one has noticed that Gabriel is missing. Michonne and Rick looking at plans, breaking up fights, serving the sick, but Michonne is missing her katana. So, she is sneaking out killing Walkers in her spare time. When she isn't working on the charter or taking care of Judith. The Grimes family dynamic is seeming to be not enough for Michonne. Now, she finds a fresh walker hanging from a tree, and she is attacked by another. She ends up find a bat similar to Lucille that she uses to kill the walker with, but she leaves as the rain begins, with still no idea who this recently deceased walker is.
Back to Hilltop and Maggie is teaching the animals to little Hershel. Everything seams to be running well at Hilltop. Georgie has been sending Maggie letters. She has taken a crowbar with her. Jesus believes that Negan should have died at the end, and that Rick made a mistake leaving him alive, but he is unsettled about Maggie's plan for Negan. The rain has created a deluge, but the rain may take out the bridge. He says there are two major herds running parallel to each other, but they do not seem like they are going to merge. Carol has decided not to go back to Sanctuary. She tells Rick that they need to figure out life for themselves at the Sanctuary. He tell her that she gives him hope. She is instead returning to the Kingdom. Still no one has noticed that Gabriel is missing. Jerry shows up and tells Rick that Jesus has relayed a message that Maggie is headed to Alexandria. Daryl offers Rick a ride on his bike. New character, Nora, who tells her that crows are taking some of their crops, and Negan is not eating. Rick asks Daryl to pull over. Daryl has messed with the relay to allow Maggie to get into Alexandria. The two get into a fight, and they roll into a hole that looks as if it was man made for something not on the up and up. Sooooo, both are stuck at the bottom.
We return to life with Negan, as Michonne tells Negan that he is to end the hunger strike. He wants Michonne to stay and talk to him in return he will eat. She gives him 20 minutes. Daryl and Rick are arguing. He says he can't believe that Rick is allowing Negan to live after what Glenn did for him. Rick believes killing Negan is only making hims a martyr. He tells Rick he believes in all these other people, but not in his own group. He tells Rick to let Carl's dream go. Rick says he never asked anyone to follow him, but Daryl tells him maybe he should have. I honestly see it from both sides, but seriously, I'm more team kill Negan.
Negan is mocking Michonne being in Alexandria while Rick and the rest build the bridge. She tells him they are rebuilding the world. Negan is telling Michonne about his wife. He tells her that his wife had cancer, and they would have loved to have had a kid like Carl. She tells him about her son Andre. He tells her that his wife was weak, but she made him strong. He is messing with her head telling her that she was glad Andre is gone because he would have made her weak. Finally, Anne and Gabriel, even though no one has noticed that both of them are gone. She kisses her unconscious lover. I don't understand how this works. She is going to turn him before delivery? He tells her that he forgives her for what she is about to do. He temporarily stops her from using a walker to turn him into a walker. Then, she knocks him out.
The Saviors have taken guns from Alden, and they want to fight Oceanside for killing their people. Carol over powers them, but now there is shooting. Rick and Daryl hear the gunshots, and they are working together to get out of the hole, before the herds converge. Michonne is looking at her katana again. She confronts Negan as she returns with his food. He tells her that they are the same. She tells him that they are not. She wants to bring people together. She says she gets strength from the dead, but she lives for the living. She says that he is trying to connect with her. He wants to see Lucille, and he thinks Michonne will bring it to him. She tells him the bat is still out on the field. He is desperate to see the bat, and he appears to be beating his hand against the wall.
Now walkers are falling in the pit with Rick and Daryl has made a step stool out of some of the walkers as they both frantically try to climb out. Rick has made it out he is trying to help Daryl out. Brother, Rick says. Take my hand, and they are both out. Rick says he is going to take the Walkers in another direction after Daryl tells him to sacrifice the bridge. He tells him to be safe. Gabriel wakes up in one of the trailers she used to hold prisoners. She left him a note, but she is gone. Michonne is reading to Judith. She sees a bat in the picture of the story she is reading. Maggie sees dead walkers and Rick's hatchet. Rick is surrounded by Walkers. The horse throws him, he lands on exposed rebar, and he is pinned to a piece of concrete as the walkers are converging from two directions towards him. Now, we are down to Rick's last episode, and things don't look like they bode well for Rick Grimes...sigh, see you next week. Bring tissue...
