That’s all plausible enough, but what the as Negan colorfully said, is the story with the helicopter? Hey, Negan’s almost a normal guy, really. We also learn he had a wife, whose name was - you guessed it - Lucille.
The guy is good at a few things, and talking is one of them. Negan talks his way out of this dire strait, which isn’t that unusual. Not before she burns Lucille (that she somehow managed to find the burning bat in that warehouse is a plot point better left unexplored). Her plan seems to involve packing up her belongings and feeding Negan to a walker, whose back she broke and fused to a hand cart. She still lives there, and even has an amazingly clean, well-lit modernist one-room apartment in there. Jadis captured Negan, and has now brought him back to her garbage castle. Still, the two Alexandrian heroes are suicidally reckless. Of course, they will turn the tables and kill every single last one of them, including Jared, the maniac who killed Henry’s older Benjamin and started this entire revenge cycle. Morgan and Rick catch up to the escapees - or rather, the escapees catch up to Morgan and Rick, sneaking up and capturing the two. Much like Rick once found Sophia, though that rescue did not end as well as this one. In a nice bit of callback, she finds him in a shallow river fending off walkers. Carol eventually finds Henry, astoundingly alive. Morgan, Rick, and Carol all find themselves out in the wilderness. Anything.Īndrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, and Danai Gurira as Michonne in 'The Walking Dead'
He’d rather go outside the walls and do, well, anything. He’s got a letter from his dead son sitting in the top drawer of a dresser, but he can’t bring himself to read it, even with Michonne’s pleading (she did read her letter from Carl). It’s an extreme coping mechanism, to be sure, but we all gotta do something, right? Of course, in his insanity, he’s become an exceedingly effective killer, and he sets off to wipe out all of the escaped Saviors. Going all the way back to his son Duane and wife, Jenny, Morgan has never been very good about dealing with death. Morgan has the same problem and that is at the core of what drives him insane.
Don’t forget, Carol lost a child in all this madness (in an interesting bit of casting, Macsen Lintz, the actor who plays Henry, is the younger brother of Madison Lintz, who played Carol’s daughter Sophia.) She has a hard time letting herself be drawn into mentally sticky things like emotions for other people. Carol, however, wants to stay and chop wood. Regardless, it’s done and the people who love Henry want to find him.Įzekiel wants to go on the search, as does Morgan, sort of. But to just wander outside the walls in the middle of the night, in the middle of a fight? It doesn’t make sense. Why would he have done that? Sure, the Saviors opened the main gates and ran, but why would Henry have followed them? Why wouldn’t he have stayed within the walls? Maybe find some cover, run for Barrington House. For some reason, Henry compounded his unforced error, opening the gate, with another error: leaving the Hilltop during the fight. With only two episodes left, this one feels like padding until we can get to whatever dramatic, climatic finale is coming down the pike.Īnd it’s hard to get too emotionally connected to the plight of Henry, which is basically what this episode revolves around. Honestly, this was one of the show’s more forgettable, and in some cases confounding (i.e., the helicopter) episodes.