Rick and Morgan go down a dark and familiar path.
Rick doesnt handle grief well.
Rick following a dark but familiar path, giving the brutality of his Rick rage some fresh air.
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But before we get into that, theres Jadis.
How did she escape with her life when the shooting commenced at the junkyard?
She ran around the corner and played dead.
Carol is chopping wood at Hilltop when shes approached by Ezekiel.
He knows where the escaped Saviors went and believes they are their best lead to finding Henry.
Either way, shes not leaping into action.
Daryl is also in denial denial that Dwight actually saved Tara by shooting her with an untainted arrow.
Michonne is reading her letter from Carl when Rick walks in.
He still hasnt read his, though its a reaction shes familiar with.
Andrea stopped her from moving, and now she wants to do the same for Rick.
She takes his coat and leaves him alone in their room.
Carol then spots Morgan storming off to go hunt the missing Saviors.
He feels responsible for losing Henry because he couldve just ended the Saviors when he had the chance.
Back at the Heap, Jadis is turning a wheelbarrow into a pyre.
She pours salt around the wood, while listening to Negan rant about finding a way to fix this.
Shes not quite paying attention.
Jadis glances again at her watch, waiting for something.
Morgan sees a body moving through the trees and believes its Henry.
He rushes ahead, shouting his name, but only finds a mirage of Henry looking back at him.
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Rick, meanwhile, is about to cross paths with them.
Staring at Carls hat poking out of his bag, he suits up to go looking for the Saviors.
He approaches Alden for clues.
Whether he wants to make it or not is another story.
The hour continues to cram a lot in as we hop back to Jadis.
Jumping back to Carol and Morgan, they follow the Savior tracks to a herd of walkers.
Carol wants to follow that direction, even if it means finding Henry dead.
But they part ways.
The theme here is pretty clear: All of these characters are dealing with the ripple effects of grief.
Its the one thing he has left of her.
She pushes the walker toward Negan and leaps around to tackle the flair out of his grasp.
While shes doing so, Negan is stunned to see a chopper hovering overhead.
Is this the same helicopter Rick glimpsed earlier in the season?
Does it have something to do with the mysterious Georgie?
We know that there are helicopter pads out in the back of the junkyard and Jadis clearly knows them.
Once again, shes left alone.
Jadis goes to burn Lucille in the fire, but Negan begs her to stop.
He reminds her that he didnt burn her photographs and promises he can make this right.
She drops the flair in return and begins to cry.
By this point, Rick finds Morgan, who admits hes not right in the head.
Someone rushes Rick from the side, knocking him out.
Some of them are sick and dying.
Jared wants to leave them, but others arent willing.
Some even suggest going their own way, since Simon was willing to let them die at the Hilltop.
But Jared thinks that delivering Rick the prick to Negan will change things for them.
He gives them his word; a mans word has got to mean something, he says.
Jared seems to be the only one who doesnt buy these proclamations.
He reminds everyone that Rick and Morgan came to kill them all.
Jared chalks up the herd to another lie, but then Morgan screams, I cant die!
Everybody turns!, attracting the walkers to their location.
The dead start pouring in.
Morgan goes stalking after Jared when he sees another vision of Henry.
Distracted, the Savior leaps out of the shadows and goes to kill Morgan with a pool stick.
Morgan knocks back Jared into a room with walkers and closes the gate behind him.
He holds Jared against the metal as walkers tear into his flesh, never once breaking eye contact.
Carol, meanwhile, gets some good news.
She finds Henry screaming for help as three walkers have him pinned down behind vines by a small pool.
She gets to him in time and embraces this boy.
Theyre a welcome sight when they return to Hilltop.
Morgan arrives and he still hasnt found himself.
He touches Henry to check that hes real and confesses he killed the man who murdered Benjamin.
Rick locks eyes with Alden as he walks through Hilltop; the blood on his face reflects his deeds.
Like Morgan, whos seen crying by himself, hes alone.
So is Jadis, who returns to her solitary room to stare up at the ceiling.
On his way back to the Sanctuary, Negan spies someone on the road.
He stares into the camera as he opens his door for this unknown passenger.
If sh could sh, it still wouldnt look as shy as you, he says.
Rosita and Daryl have also found Eugenes outpost, where hes making bullets.
They vow to take out the man instead of the machines.
Closing out the episode, Rick finally opens the letter from Carl.
