Dead Viewing: Season 9, Episode 13-"Chokepoint"

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Remember, I'm just writing what I see and reacting.

Welcome back, everyone!  The fugitives are on the run, but they are not going to Hilltop because Tara made a deal with the Whisperers. Daryl is upset that Lydia lied about the number of Whisperers. She tells him he was holding her in a cage. Henry suggest that he and Lydia run separate to which everyone says it's a bad idea. Daryl insists they keep moving, but Connie leads the group from their hiding spot. Beta and crew are now on their trail.

Meanwhile, the Kingdom is getting their fair together. Nabila and Carol are discussing how the fair is a new beginning. They noticed Jerry, Diane, and their group have been jumped and stripped of their armour. They call themselves the "Highwaymen," and they claim to own all of the roads around the Kingdom, and they are going to charge all the people a toll to come to the Kingdom. They debate as to whether or not its the former Sanctuary members. The Hilltop group is on their way to the fair, but a tree is blocking their path. Kelly is  nervous because Connie has not comeback. Back to Daryl and crew, Connie convinces Daryl to take a higher position off the ground called the Chokepoint. He asks Lydia how will the Whisperers will roll as a crew with the Walkers. She tells him with a herd, maybe 5 or 6, but the one he needs to worry about is Beta. She is also worried that going high will get them trapped. 

Jerry and his crew have found the Highwaymen, and they are not the Whisperers it seems. Carol wants to talk to the Highwaymen; Jerry thinks it was a death threat. Carol still wants to talk, but she tells Ezekiel that if they won't listen to reason, then they will kill them. I love Carol. Connie has found a stash of supplies in this building. Connie and her crew hid in this building once. Connie wants Lydia to sat, but Daryl tells her their friends will die if they take her back. Connie leaves him with a note that says they have friends she doesn't. The leader of the Highwaymen only wants to talk to the King, but Ezekiel tells they rule together. The Highwaymen have been hiding among the mannequins and want to hold the King hostage, but his crew surrounds the Highwaymen. The King offers them a job. They promise if they keep the road to the Kingdom safe, they will give them access to the Kingdom and the fair. The leader initially balks laughing that they need to do better than that. Carol then offers them a movie.

Daryl and crew are barricading themselves in and waiting for Beta to come. Lydia tells Henry that she does not want to kill her people; he tells her he will try not kill her people. She asks why he came for her, and he tells her that he cares about her. A group of walkers have come upon the Hilltop group attacking them. Tammy protects the new baby in a trunk and manages to kill a few walkers to save Earl. A group of horsemen approach. It's the Highwaymen coming to escort them Hilltop to the Kingdom. I guess they took Carol's deal, which was probably best considering what happens when people say no to Carol.

Beta and crew have arrived in town. Daryl just killed the guy Beta was comforting the night before who was bitten by a walker. They are trying to use the walkers to barricade them in. Daryl takes Lydia with him. She kisses Henry and follows Daryl. The walkers are trapped, but Beta and the crew climb over the trap. Daryl locks Lydia in a closet to protect her since she will not fight against the Whisperers. Henry knocks out one of the female Whisperers, and Connie takes out another. Henry is knocked down by one. Henry is wounded (of course), bu he takes out another. Lydia breaks out of the closet to help Henry who is bleeding badly. Beta picks up Daryl and throws him like a child. He asks about Lydia, and the two begin a knife fight. They loose the knives and start fighting. He holds Daryl's throat over a bandsaw, but Daryl stabs Beta and gets away. Beta searches for him, but Daryl was hiding with Connie's stash. Daryl sneaks up behind him and knocks Beta down an elevator shaft.

The Kingdom is setting up the fair. The head Highway man nods at Carol as the Hilltop arrives at the Kingdom. Carol is upset to see that Henry is not with them. Tara is surprised that Daryl has not arrived. Connie uses her slingshot to lure the walkers out of the building. The four of them are on their way to Alexandria. Beta meanwhile is broken, but not dead in the elevator shaft, and he is hella mad...

Last week, I made a mistake on the title, I update the post with the correct episode number and title. Until next week...

Dead Viewing: Season 9, Episode 11-"Bounty"

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Welcome back, everybody!!! We get to see the confrontation with Alpha tonight. Hey, Jerry and Ezekiel, long time no see. Nabila and Jerry are going to have a baby!!! Awwww!! Carol's haris is short, oh a flashback, there is Jesus and Tara. I wish they would tell us what happened between Maggie and Michonne. So, Ezekiel now has the accord that Michonne wrote for all of the groups but refused to sign. Diane, Ezekiel and Carol are going hunting, and dang, Nabila and Jerry have three kids!!! Alpha asks for her daughter and Daryl refuses to give her, so Alpha signals for more of her people.

Earl and Tammy arguing about burns. Enid is now a full-fledged doctor. Tammy and Enid discussing Alden when Marco tells Enid about the Whisperers. Connie is hiding in the corn. Alpha tells them that she will not have conflict, if they will give back her daughter. Daryl decides to have a one on one conversation with Alpha even though the rest of the group are afraid Alpha will kill Alden and Luke if they don't give her Lydia. After the great elk hunt for the fair, Ezekiel wants to take a side mission without Carol which does not go over well with Carol who accompanies him to what appears to be an overrun movie theater full of walkers.

Daryl tells Alpha she can't have her. Alpha brought a woman nursing a baby out her. Daryl threatens to light them up. Alpha offers him Alden and Luke for her daughter. Carol thinks it is to risky to get a projector bulb from the theater to show a movie. I love Jerry lip synching and bopping to the music they are using to lure the walkers out of the theater. Ugh, a Walker almost takes its head off going through a popcorn machine. Alpha also brought a group of the dead with her. Luke sees Connie in the corn. He signals to her that she needs to stay hidden. Meanwhile, Henry has broken Lydia out and escaped with her. This kid...

This baby is crying, and Alpha stares the mother down until she leaves the baby on the ground for the dead. What the what?  Connie grabs the crying baby, runs into the cornfield,  and is being chased by walkers Daryl, Tammy, Earl and Kelly get Connie and the baby. Jerry is trying to get a light bulb and Ezekiel wants to get a frame for the charter. Carol is talking about talking to Jesus about going to Hilltop, and as they are about to leave, Diane and Jerry are attacked by a walker, and Jerry dropped the bulb.

Lydia was surprised that her mother came. Enid is trying to convince Henry that they have to give her back to savy their people. Enid is telling him about Carl in order to convince him to let Lydia go. Lydia tells them that she will go back, and she will miss him. She tells him that she will be okay and he will be, too. Then, she kisses him. Daryl takes Lydia to meet with Alpha. They give them Luke and Alden. Lydia apologizes to her mother who slaps her and tells her to call her Alpha like the rest. Daryl is really not happy about this exchange.

So, they are going to Legolas and Aragorn their way into the theater. Carol wanting to protect Ezekiel so much and his saying that maybe they are done losing for a while does not bode well for Ezekiel, especially since it seems they are passing one of the Whisperers tags. Daryl and Henry discuss Lydia. He says with the scars on his back how could he send her back. Henry says he knows that Daryl helped when the bad things went down at Alexandria. They have the charter in the frame and the projector working. Connie and her group are back. Alden and Enid are hooking up. They gave the baby to Tammy and Earl. Jerry is back home with his family, and  Henry looks like he is about to do something stupid, and he has a not which the girl with glasses gives him a note that Henry says he couldn't live with it. Daryl goes after him, and Connie decides to go with him. That's all, y'all!!!! See ya, next week!!!

Dead Viewing: Season 9, Episode 10-"Omega"

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Remember, I'm just writing what I see and reacting.

Welcome back, guys!!! Baltimore back in day. Young Lydia and her mom Pre-Alpha and her husband Frank have been in a basement for 23 days into the Z-pac. Lydia was flashing back as she talks to Henry. Henry thinks how they live is messed up. She thinks Daryl is his dad. She tells him this place is going to fall. Apparently, Lydia's mom or someone killed her dad. She tells Henry that her mom is a lot like Carol. You don't want to mess with her. Meanwhile, Daryl is eavesdropping on their conversation.

Tara is leading the new troopers out to search. They are watching walkers feed, but they are being watched. They take out the many hoard who were feeding on Alden and Luke's horses that Connie tells them the horses were cut and skinned. Tara decides to go back and regroup because they don't know how many people are out there. Back in the clink, Henry is offering food to Lydia who refuses it. Flashback, Frank wants to leave the bunker, but his wife does not want because she doesn't want Lydia to end up an orphan. Of course, Henry now tells her about the Kingdom, and Daryl has heard enough. Daryl tells him that he has family in the Kingdom, and she had who knows how many people out there. Henry thinks she's just messed up and calls Daryl a butthole. Henry...moron...

Daryl questions her about her mother and what she would do if she came across their people. Lydia flashes back to her mother killing a man who went into panic mode in the bunker. Daryl tells her that her mom did what she had to do. He gives her some pills for her ear. He tells her that there are good people here. He offers her water, and she tries to attack him. The new peeps want to go out and find Luke, except Magna and Connie who don't want to tick off Tara and ruin what they have at Hilltop, but Yumiko and Kelly convince them to sneak out to try to find Luke. 

Daryl comes down to talk to Lydia. He say the marks on her arm from her mom's beatings. He asks her if her mom loves her why does she beat her. She says because soft people die. Lydia's flashback leaves out details like why her mom is now bald. Lydia sneaks over to see the corpse of the dead man who then turns into a walker who attacks her father. She says that her father was soft. She says that the people here are soft, but Daryl is not like them. He's hard. She wants him to tell her more, but he walks away. Meanwhile, the newbies are striking out on their mission impossible.

Henry tells Daryl that he could have helped. He asks Daryl was he beaten. He tells him the story of why Carol cut her hair and kept it short. Henry thinks Lydia is just messed up, but that Daryl could get to her. Kelly wants to stay out to look for Luke, because he saved her. Magna and Yumiko go back, but Kelly and Connie stay out, meanwhile, they are being watched. Henry is back talking to Lydia, and the idiot has the Keys and is letting her out. What a moron!!! This kid... The girl is out here eating worms from the ground, and she just offered one she licked to Henry. EWWW...Henry the dummy is telling her everything while she is picking up a hammer while telling him that places like this aren't supposed to exist. She drops the hammer when she hears a baby cry. She has flashbacks to how her mother became what she is. Her mother shaved her head like her father had shaved his beard. She tells Henry to put her back in the cell. Daryl, of course, is monitoring them. She asks Henry to stay the night, and he does.

Lydia tell them that her mother was not coming for her. She tells them that they don't search for people. She tells them that the story that she told them was a lie that her mother told her. The walker did not get her father. Her mother wanted to escape, but her father didn't Her mother was not the nice parent it was her father. Her mother killed her father. Daryl asks her about their people. She says her mother would see no reason to keep them alive. She also tells them the camp they are currently living in, but that they move around. The newbies were being watched by the Hilltop, and the Hilltop was followed by the Whisperers. Connie hides in the cornfield, while Kelly and the Hilltoppers make it back in. Alpha announces her presence, and that the only thing she wants is her daughter. Yikes, she's a mess...Until next week...