The episode opens with Negan's lead guy (played by Stephen Ogg, who was the voice of Trevor in GTA who just so happen to use a baseball bat as his weapon of choice, coincidence, I think not!) and some men teaching a lesson to an unknown victim in the road (played by Kevin Patrick Murray - uncredited).
Morgan is on horseback, looking for Carol. He stumbles across a freshly killed walker and Carol's blood-stained rosary. He picks it up and continues on his search and finds Carol at a library camp. The survivors at this camp have all been slaughtered by the Saviors. Carol is injured with a slash wound on her side. Morgan patches her up with a first-aid kit and tells her that he'll get her back to get some help in the morning. Carol looks at him like he's crazy and tells him no. She diverts him and leaves while he's busy with a freshly-turned walker (or hanger, in this case), not wanting to be found.
Morgan finds Carol (again) after she weakly fought off the dead and Roman the Savior was messing her up badly with non-fatal gunshot wounds trying to make her bleed out in revenge for the "Nancy" kill. Carol basically begs Roman to finish her off. Morgan arrives just in time to use the gun that Rick gave him on Roman. Morgan realizes sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
Morgan and Carol are then found by the armored guy that was running away last episode (as well as another armored guy on a horse) and Morgan tells him he found his horse and his friend (Carol). Armored guys say they will help Carol.
Back at Alexandria they are preparing to transport Maggie to the Hilltop via RV. Rick, Abraham, Sasha, Aaron, Eugene and Carl all come along on this venture. Rick would rather Aaron stay, but Aaron says the only way to stop him is to shoot him or punch him (again). Glenn is not in the RV. Enid gets trick-locked in a closet for her own good by Carl or she'd have gone, too.
Abraham shares an intimate moment with Eugene, even hugging him and singing his praise. He also has a very intimate conversation with Sasha and basically tells her he's ready to settle down and have a kid with her! That could be a telling situation...when people become reasonable and talking level-headed on the show...death usually comes.
Along the way the roads are blocked by different groups of saviors. It seems everywhere they go in the RV, Saviors are there "guiding" them where they want them to go. Eugene says that the Saviors don't know how many of them are in the RV and suggests he just drives alone.
They meet the "lead" savior. They are beating a man on the ground (Murray from the opening scene). He is the lone survivor of the abandoned library camp where Morgan found Carol. Ogg keeps messing with Rick then Rick asks him "Do you want this to be your last day on Earth?” and the leader returns Ricks question. After an intense standoff it's Rick's group that turns back.
Now on another road, our group comes across a chain of walkers, two of which are wearing things that belong to Michonne and Daryl (two locks of Michonne's hair and Daryl's jacket). Because of this everyone comes to the realization that Daryl and Michonne are hostages.
In the woods there's a group of saviors watching who start whistling then start shooting at our group, taunting them, driving them back into a certain direction that they want. Rick realizes this after seeing that that the saviors are purposely only shooting at the group's legs.
As for the Negan welcoming party...
The camp of potential victims will be in this order: Rick, Carl, Michonne, Abe, Sasha, Glenn, Maggie, Daryl, Rosita, Eugene, and Aaron.
When he comes to sick Maggie who is on a stretcher, Negan says he ought to put her out of her misery brings up the bat and Glenn hops up yelling "NO!" and charges Negan. He gets tackled, naturally, by Dwight. So Negan raises up the bat over Glenn, then changes his mind, then tells them to get Glenn back in line.
The beating commences... When he does the eenie meenie it quickly cuts to his bat being pointed at different people then just as he says "YOU ARE" it shows Rick looking worried. Then it points to a POV of the person being picked..."IT" then he swings, the camera goes down to the ground then it comes back up to Negan, who says, "Taking it like a champ." Blood pours down the screen. Goes black and the screaming and bat gutting carries on.
Unless they change something up - cliffhanger as to the victim's identity. There has been rumor that there has been some editing, it could be an added scene or just the cutting out of all the F-bombs that Negan says.
See you in October!!!
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