The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Livereunited its star-crossed lovers at the end of the season premiere.
The boats log said the vessel last docked at Bridgers Shipyard in New Jersey.
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Gone picks this story line up no more than a day or two later.
Michonne, Bailey, and Aidan have caught up to the caravan.
She says shes happy to go on her way if they cant accommodate that request.
Elle tries to recruit her to join their community instead.
The caravan is made up of dozens of wagons and hundreds of survivors.
But they have one rule: The caravan doesnt wait or return if someone gets left behind.
Keep up, or else just like the harfoots inRings of Power!
But Michonneneedsto find Rick and bring him back to their family in Alexandria.
Moreover, shes not interested in people who dont help their own.
In storms a new character, Nat (Matthew August Jeffers), who shares Michonnes values.
He comes in so hot that he doesnt realize Aidan and Bailey are right behind him.
Nat is chaotic and endearing from minute one.
Thats one of the things I love most aboutThe Walking Dead:The apocalypse doesnt kill these characters personalities.
Some people may become stoic badasses in a lawless society.
Some people might turn evil.
But some are just dramatic, annoying, and 100 percent themselves.
Because she protected his friends by returning them to the caravan, Nat offers Michonne the horse she wanted.
Nat is a munitions guy, weapons tech, engineer, and all-around genius survivor.
The trio sends her off toward the horde between her and the N.J. shipyard, and then surprise!
Sometime later, the group travels peacefully through a Northeastern town.
Then theyre attacked by the Civic Republic Military, who drops chlorine gas from a helicopter above.
The gas kills many of the survivors, including Aidan and Bailey.
This is what the military that Rick joined does.
The episode jumps to the present, where we see the last scene ofThe Ones Who Livepremierefrom Michonnes perspective.
Nat, wishing to avenge Bailey and Aidans death, is the one who shoots it down.
Michonne picks the soldiers off one by one and discovers that one of them is Rick Grimes.
I found you, says Michonne.
Its corny, but can you blame them?
Emotions are too high to be anything but a little inelegant.
Rick asks about Judith first and assures Michonne that hes not reallywiththe CRM second.
Unfortunately, the intimate and cathartic moment is painfully brief.
More CRM soldiers are coming.
Half-pleading, half-commanding, Rick gives her a story to tell his superiors.
Dont show them who you are, he says, meaning her name and relationship to Rickandher moral character.
If they sniff out that shes strong and a leader like him, shes in danger.
He also warns her not to call zombies walkers because thats what he called them.
Rick and Michonne go to hide her journal and anything that could connect her to Alexandria in his pack.
Rick kills the soldier and leaves his wifes signature katana in Nats hand.
I love you, he shouts.
We dont see Nat turn, but Im going to assume he doesnt survive for the time being.
He has to be dead, right?
Let these characters linger!
Leave that whiplash style of storytelling toThe Last of Us.
Its hard enough that the seasons are one-third as long asThe Walking Dead, you know?
Then, when the moments right, Rick nudges her and the two sneak into a garage.
They kiss and talk and kiss some more.
He tells her hes going to pass her notes.
(What are they, 12?!
They also talk about how the CRM is committing genocide.
They have numbers and resources well beyond any other community.
Rick and Michonnes priority has to be getting home to Virginia.
What Michonne doesnt tell Rick is that they have a son together.
RJ, short for Rick Junior, was born after Rick vanished.
She decides to wait.
You cant convince me that Rick would act rationally.
Even if he did play it cool, its safer for RJ if only Michonne knows he exists.
Especially because Michonne herself is not as safe as she thinks someone at the CRM knows shes not Dana.
Someone we almost forgot about: Anne (Pollyanna McIntosh), a.k.a.
the one who got Rick into this mess by Blue skidooing him away in a helicopter.
Anne knows who Michonne is.
She threatens to kill everyone they love if the two escape.
Since the CRM has the ability to bomb Alexandria, thats a big threat.
She also alludes to them having had an agreement.
Lets continue to keep certain things between you and me, she says.
Michonnes arrival, she says later, doesnt fall under our long-standing deal.
This is news to me!
I said that Rick Grimes was in Pennsylvania due to his proximity to the CRM community in Philly.
Technically, he is stationed across the Delaware River, which is over the New Jersey state line.
I apologize to the Garden State for the error.
Shakespeare in the Park reunion!
Sam Ewings rambling score is really lovely in this episode.
Michonne calls for Shoto on her radio.
Thats her nickname/call sign for Judith Grimes, who calls her Daito back onThe Walking Dead.
The words mean short sword and long sword in Japanese.
