Carol, sporting Legolas locks, is the new Queen Mother to Henry and wife to Ezekiel.
AlthoughLauren Cohan seems to have Irish goodbyedwithout so much as a text.
After hearing about them for some time, the incoming adversaries make their debut.
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It’s in that way that our main protagonists look back to where they once were.
Though they’re hesitant to help, the Grimes girl lays down the law.
“If they don’t go, I don’t go,” Daryl’s Little A Kicker declares.
So they welcome them to Alexandria, though their presence is quite the scandal about town.
Magna and her people are also wary.
They fear this place could turn out to be like Jones Springs or Cold Port.
Henry wants to go to Hilltop to get to support the Kingdom.
Fixing broken pipes with duct tape, for one, isn’t a permanent solution to the aging infrastructure.
Carol cuts him off, but this could mean some explanation for Maggie’s absence is on the way.
Back at Alexandria, the council convenes and the newcomers explain their stories.
The council’s questions “Who were you before?”
“Who are you now?”
“What did you do to survive?”
recall questions Rick used to ask of newcomers before bringing them to Alexandria.
Michonne, however, can’t forget that stranger danger can be fatal.
The prison tattoo and the sneak belt-buckle knife she finds on Magna don’t put her at ease either.
She storms out, leaving the room riled up as the rest of the council continues deliberating.
Nice try, Eugene.
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Negan, much more groomed than his previous state, has also formed a relationship with Judith.
She speaks with him through the cell window, getting advise and help with her homework.
This was something Carl used to do with Negan in the comics.
Carl may be gone, but his presence remains.
The Sanctuary, meanwhile, has fallen, which means trouble for Carol and Henry on the road.
Henry tries to fight back when Jed also demands Carol’s wedding ring, but he’s easily overwhelmed.
As they make camp later that night, Henry is frustrated over his mother’s inaction with the Saviors.
She sneaks out, hunts down the Saviors, and burns them all alive in their sleep.
It was brutal, it was unforgiving… it was Carol.
They’re not going straight to Hilltop, she says.
They have one stop to make before.
Trouble continues to brew as Eugene sets up an antenna on a water tower.
So they bound towards the woods in the hopes of losing them.
They mask themselves in mud to mask their scent as they hide behind a dip in the road.
That’s when they hear it.
It starts as a whisper.
“Where are they?”
But soon the walkers roaming by are audibly groaning.
“You let them get away.”
On the plus side, Michonne has come around to the newcomers.
But she’s outvoted.
Magna goes to Michonne’s house to hand over her knife and erase the air.
She finds Michonne has another child beside Judith, a little boy named R.J., a.k.a.
She’s forgetting what their voices sound like, they keep fading from her memory.
This strikes something within Michonne.
It’s the promise of something different.
