But things in this world are fine until they aren’t, and that switch flips quickly. Maggie hears well-earned praise from her sergeant-at-arms and a Hilltop rando for her leadership. (DAMN!)Īside from a handful of deaths and some minor annoyances - like that A-hole who gives Siddiq a hard time for no good reason, and Gregory’s continued existence - Hilltop is in pretty decent post-battle shape. Tara says, “Hey, people change, look at me, I was with the Governor and so was your brother.” (Damn!) Daryl counters that perhaps she forgot that Daryl killed her girlfriend. Tara and Daryl have a lively debate over Dwight’s motivations. Dwight was following Simon all over the Hilltop yard in the darkness, so why didn’t he take out Simon when he had a chance, thus proving his ultimate allegiance to the Hilltop cause? Instead, he ends up skewering Tara in what looks like a mercy wound - “just a scratch” - to keep Simon from ambushing her. That brings us to Tara, who never should have been hit by an arrow in the first place. Rick and Maggie chase the remaining Saviors straight out of the front gates, and with more than half the episode left, you know there’s another shoe that’s waiting to drop. As his beef with Negan has become personal and intimate, so has his preferred method of killing.) Are they that low on bullets, or is he just really lousy at packing before combat? (Note how Rick’s go-to weapon this season is the axe instead of his Colt Python. He appears in a blaze of semi-automatic glory, empties one clip, then tosses the rifle aside and goes back to his axe. Simon’s crew is also lucky that Rick throws away a lot of perfectly good weapons these days. Give them points for pulling a Katniss and resorting to archery, but otherwise, they don’t have much of a plan at all. Without Negan, the Saviors aren’t exactly battlefield tacticians: When they hit a school-bus blockade, they’re at a loss once the Hilltop headlights are shot out and the whole place goes dark, and they’re very confused when the lights come back on. “Maggie Rhee, the Widow” introduces herself to Simon by walkie, and the “good guy” Savior, Alden, tries to broker peace: “Too nice a night to spend it dying slow, don’t you think?” Strong line, dude, but Simon responds in Trumpian fashion - he prefers Saviors who don’t get captured.Īnd so, it’s on. Simon makes good on his promise of a new day for the Saviors, but shifts the plan of attack from “infection to conclusion.” That’s a smart (and manipulative) bit of storytelling sleight of hand on the part of the show’s writers, since now we’re not thinking about that zombie-gore bath that the Saviors gave their weapons. We also see Morgan get haunted by the world’s most annoying ghost and are reminded why no one in their right mind should feel safe around anyone under the age of 15. Instead, we finally witness the much-discussed assault on Hilltop, which looks like a win for the good guys until a surprise epilogue scores big, bloody points for the Saviors. If you hoped for some resolution to the Negan/Jadis road trip in this episode, you must be new to the show, because that’s exactly the kind of story thread The Walking Dead loves to dangle unresolved for a couple weeks. I hate this too.Photo: Gene Page/AMC/AMC Film Holdings LLC. It's not about being nice or good or anything, but keeping our people alive and not having them die over nothing. Michonne: Good, because nice never got me anywhere. The good samaritan, but the thing is, Eric is dead, Jesus is dead, and I'm god damn sick of being nice. Michonne: We have to keep our cool or they win.Īaron: I've been keeping my cool my whole life, I've always been the nice guy. And it wasn't them, and you could have died, for what?Īaron: We've all been acting like this is normal. ![]() We agreed not to cross their borders and start anything without a reason. That doesn't mean that everything that follows is going to break your heart. Nothing can take the place of someone you love being gone. One day, when you're older, they're going to need you to do anything for them. There's one thing I know, there's a whole bunch of people back there that would do anything for you. There ain't no one that can tell you they do. I didn't want to tell you.ĭaryl: Because I can't lie to you. Judith: She went to go help some people she met, who needed her. I talked to her after the fire, and I'm worried. That's all.ĭaryl: I radioed your mom, so she knows not to go home, so she's safe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Judith: I just want us to be back together again. What if you were lost and no one could find you? Where RJ was or mom?ĭaryl: You gonna tell me where this is coming from? Judith: I can't believe we just left her in a ditch.
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