Alicia: I need something to be good.
Charlie: Yeah, I do too.
Make that three of us.
Credit: Ryan Green/AMC
Whether the episode answers this debate that the show has been framing all season long is another question.
The Broadway star deserves better.
Now, she has a name that triggers a bro-down bonding session between Batmen and Supermen… Martha!
She was piloting the drivers seat when her car crashed into a railing and fatally injured her husband.
Cars wouldnt stop for them, even as she planted herself in the middle of the road.
So Martha was forced to watch her husband turn into a walker.
She buried him and lost herself amidst the voices clamoring for attention in her mind.
She killed Stevie swiftly, savagely who became her first walker companion.
This reveal gives more weight to Marthas confrontation later with Morgan after she unleashes gunfire on the truck.
Remember Wendell, though?
Hes able to plant a rifle shot straight into Marthas chest.
The area is littered with the motionless walkers their friends had to deal with.
Morgan eyes a sign for a hospital not too far off their path, but Jim is freaking out.
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Fast forward a bit, they make it to the hospital and June patches everyone up.
Except now theyre all stuck in the building with walkers clamoring to get inside.
He wasnt jaded by the accident, it made him want to keep helping others.
But this all channels energy back to the question that keeps getting asked.
Wendell helped people, only to be rejected by those he wanted to help.
Martha tried to get help for her husband, but couldnt.
Madison, going even further back, lost her life trying to help her family.
Its a very selfish conversation to be having in a lot of ways.
Alicia, too, seems done helping her friends.
They plan to move up to the higher floors in search of a way out.
Everything is blocked and walkers are starting to close in.
They, too, run into trouble and Al volunteers to go to the generator alone.
The generator turns on just as the walkers have cornered the others by the elevator.
The group makes it to the top of the roof, only to learn more depressing news.
June tends to Jims wounds on the roof and finds a bite mark on his back.
Of course, now Morgan is feeling guilt weigh down on him.
He asked for my help, he tells June.
He asked me to save him.
MM 54, as we promised, does end on a more hopeful note.
This is where their exchange about needing something to be good comes in again.
That good comes when they reach a familiar body of water.
