The Walking Dead (2010–…): Season 11, Episode 16 - Acts of God - full transcript
Maggie prepares to defend Hilltop and the people of Riverbend against Hornsby.
Those monsters are on the loose,
we need to smoke them out.
We'll start with the Hilltop.
Previously on "The
Walking Dead"...
Open up, ain't nobody leavin'
until they look around.
You are gonna get me my cash.
They wanted us to stay quiet
but there are good people here.
They need to know the truth.
You want me to look
for secret files?
Yes, and steal them. This
involves the Miltons?
The young psychopath, at least.
My name is Lance Hornsby and
I'm here to offer you a job.
Come here.
You have everything?
Piggy Pig?
I'm not a baby anymore, Mom.
Right. I forgot.
I don't wanna go.
It's only temporary. Okay?
I promise.
I wanna help. I know
you do, Hershel,
but not this time, okay?
How far do you think?
12 miles south, give or take.
Should get there before
dark if we move fast.
Then we'll be back
before you know it.
Okay?
I got you.
Call it.
Tails, I guess.
Over there, please.
Gonna give us the
assignment, sir?
You'll know soon enough.
Morning. Oh, my God.
I thought you were still asleep.
Well, I was... soundly so.
I thought we had a
lovely night, didn't we?
Yeah, we did.
What are you reading?
Um, just
stuff on physics.
"An object in
motion"... You know.
Well...
Just so you know
you are the most remarkable
human I have ever met
in my heretofore
uneventful life.
Okay, let's not get
carried away here.
You're beautiful in every way.
Thank you.
I have to get ready for work.
If you're having
hesitation about what
I've asked you to do...
No.
I said I'll do it.
I just, um...
Hey.
You can tell me.
I just can't stop thinking about
what happens after we do this.
This place pushes on people
to keep things the same.
I just worry they'll keep
pushing till we all break.
Clear.
This room is clear!
They're not splitting up.
- Clear!
- Yeah, they will.
This might be our best
shot. No, it's too risky.
We need to just get through
this and get back home.
There is no "getting
through this," all right?
We are in the shit till we find
a way to fight our way out.
Look, we keep heading
north, away from our group.
We find our moment, we take it.
Hey, what's with the chit-chat?
Man, we need a break.
Been doing this for a while now.
And we'llkeep doing
this for a while,
if that's what it takes.
Hey, you check Charleston yet?
Why? What's in Charleston?
There's a rumor
up on the rooftops
they trade for
weapons and stuff.
Might be something, might not.
Move!
Romano, what's your 20?
13 miles past the last outpost.
Second location is
cleared, one more to go.
Copy that.
Let's move.
Hornsby's checking in on us.
We need to watch our backs.
Yeah.
Sounds like it's getting closer.
Because it is.
Mom?
I'm okay.
No, you're not.
Hershel...
Everything I've done...
And everything I still do
is so that we have choices.
The place that we're going
right now, you may not like it.
But I promise you,
it is the right choice.
For now.
Oh, you made it! This way.
Exciting.
Don't you think?
Things are coming together.
You get the scalp of the
woman who killed your family,
and I finally get to do my
job without interference.
Everybody wins.
Well
not everybody.
I'll need to see.
When she's dead.
I'll need to see
her when she's dead.
You will.
Come on.
Okay, this thing is stuck.
Maggie.
Hey, kid.
And you're sure this guy
Hornsby and his men are coming?
Yes, Elijah spotted
a few of them 5 miles
outside our walls last night.
Thoughts?
You helped us,
and I am grateful.
And I got no problem
watching the kid at all.
But, Annie, my
wife, is pregnant,
so there is no way
I'm gonna sit in some.
Whisperer worm hole
while you're out...
I don't know... Saving
some shithole of a home
that's not worth saving.
Negan, don't.
Actually, he's right.
Maybe Hilltop
isn't worth saving.
Those people are.
This fight that I'm
in, that I started,
with Hornsby...
It's not gonna end
until I end it.
And I got no doubt you will.
But I also got no doubt
that you are firmly
in the crosshairs of
this Lance asshole, so...
So I'm coming with you.
No. I'll finish it.
Maggie, we can help
fight... No, please.
I need you to stay
here... With Hershel,
with those others.
Keep them away from Hilltop
and safe until this is over.
He doesn't exactly
trust me, you know?
But I'm starting to.
You saved him
at Riverbend.
Whatever else happens,
and whatever else has happened,
I will never forget that.
Wow.
You have big balls, Maggie Rhee.
I got you.
And I got your boy.
Annie...
He'll be waiting for
you when this is done.
I promise you that.
Thank you.
Oh, shit.
If that ain't a sign
from the Man Upstairs.
You at the second location?
Clearing that now.
Finish.
Then head back.
Copy that, sir. We'll head back.
One last sweep, then home.
All right, great.
I'll lead.
Cover left, cover left!
Aah!
Keep 'em surrounded!
Flanking left! Cover me!
Moving up! Cover me, cover me!
Watch that left!
Watch that left!
Where's Hornsby?
Screw you.
It's your choice.
Maybe...
Maybe 10 miles out.
He said he wanted...
Said he wanted to
clear the field.
"Clear the field"?
Leave only allies behind.
Maggie.
Romano, you there?
He ain't here anymore.
Move! Now!
And when this world fell,
we gathered up the
scattered pieces,
and we put them
back together again.
It wasn't easy, and
we faltered at times.
But we found a reason to live
when everything
outside these walls
was dead.
Max?
You okay?
You seem
far away.
No, I'm good.
I'm right here.
Max, if you're having a
bad day, you can tell me.
I do get it, you know?
Always having to be "strong,"
never show any emotion.
But if we can't show
that to each other,
who can we show it to?
I appreciate it, Pamela.
You know I do. But...
I am really okay.
Oh, before I forget.
Accounting sent over the
Founders' Day budget.
There's a $50,000 surplus.
Well, that's great.
I was gonna suggest something,
if you're open to it?
How about starting
a scholarship fund
for our less-fortunate families?
I've put together a
proposal, and we could...
Is that... okay?
Of course! I love your
out-of-the-box thinking.
But any extra funds go
right back into the event.
It's our biggest
day of the year.
Sure.
I understand.
You really should get going.
You've got that 5:00 dinner.
Yes, thank you.
I don't know what I'd
do without you, Max.
You're leaving soon, too, right?
Right behind you.
Hey.
I'm so sorry. I didn't
mean to scare you.
No, Sebastian, hi.
Uh, no, you didn't.
Is there something
that I can help you...
Yes, uh, is... is...
Uh, is my mom pissed at me?
You know, 'cause I keep
asking for her, and... and
nothing, so... It's just been
a hectic afternoon, so...
I gotta talk to her,
so could you just...
If you could get
her for me, Max...
She's actually at a work dinner,
but I can get word
to her for you.
"Get word to her"?
Yeah, yeah, why...
Why don't you go "get
word" to her for me.
Her only child.
That is such bullshit.
I'm really sorry, Sebastian,
but I was actually
on my way out, so...
Oh, you never stop!
But, working, working, hey.
You just... Oh, God,
I mean, you even take
it home with you?
Oh, no, that's... I... I got it.
It's okay. That's fine.
Always clumsy after one too many
afternoon coffees, you know?
Yeah, it's, uh
poor man's drug.
Caffeine.
No sign of Hornsby.
Asshole always has somebody
else do his dirty work.
See if we can recover
any of their weapons.
Follow their trail
back to their camp,
and then we end this.
On it.
You ready, bud?
As ever.
Let's do it.
Marco!
Get down!
No. Marco!
Go, go.
How many?
Three.
Leah, your 20?
Leah, what the hell was that?!
I drew 'em out.
I'm doin' this my way.
Your way got my men killed!
Collateral damage.
I've got others fanned
over a 20-mile perimeter.
We'll find them.
You goddamned better.
His troopers are here.
He's gotta be close.
Yeah.
We got walkers, too.
He set traps for them.
These aren't for them.
What is it?
Leah.
I think we should split
up, cover more ground.
You sure it was her?
Yes.
Go, please.
I'll lead Leah and
the others away.
I am not gonna leave you.
I will not risk losing you two.
We can handle
ourselves, Maggie, okay?
We'll draw them away, too, and
then, when everyone's safe,
we'll just go meet
up with the others.
I'll find you. Go.
Tyler Davis is on this list.
And the woman Rosita
tried to help out
during the heist
is on here, too.
I counted 200 more.
What about these numbers?
They look like... codes?
Maybe coordinates?
So you think this is about
where they're hiding people.
Why don't we write about that?
No, not yet.
I need proof.
Something this big,
this explosive?
We... We need a key
to crack the code.
U-Until we have that,
I'll write about
Sebastian's heist,
and hang it around
Pamela's neck.
I mean, when everyone finds out
that she's not on their side,
they're gonna question
everything about this place.
Hence the
aforementioned uprising.
No, hey, hey, hey!
It's... It's okay.
I thought we could use
help, so I told him to come.
Sorry I'm late.
Trying to round up a
few more for the cause.
- Geez.
- I told him
we'd needed more people
to get the article out.
And I got a whole network, ready
and willing to ride at dawn.
We're doing this?
Let's ride.
I have waited for this
moment for a long time.
I know what you want.
I wanted it myself
for a long time.
You can't kill me.
That would be too easy.
If that was what you wanted,
you would've done it already.
You want me to suffer.
Feel everything that you felt.
All the pain.
'Cause somewhere inside you,
you think that'll
take away your pain.
It won't.
You're wrong.
It's not just you.
By the time I'm done...
Everyone you love will be dead.
Then I guess that makes us even.
I took your family,
you take mine.
Nature has a way of taking
care of these things.
It's not nature.
Or fate.
It's us.
I killed your people because
it was what I wanted.
If this is what
you want, Leah...
Go ahead.
You want it, so do it.
Go on.
Hyah!
They're in there!
Sir, are you okay?
Let it go! On the other side!
Who's my backup here?
Hold your fire!
Now we take it all.
Oh, shit.
If that ain't a sign
from the Man Upstairs.
The locusts, in some ways
it's an atmospheric element.
It's just part of, like,
the sense of the world
itself is hostile.
I think for our heroes,
this overwhelming sound
is part of, like, what
makes things complicated,
because it makes it harder to
hear Leah coming, for example.
But, on the other hand,
they're looking at it
as kind of like this
unsettling thing,
which is this a problem for them
in terms of, like,
being, like, a harbinger
of more problems to come.
Seems like it's getting closer.
Because it is.
There's just a lot running
through their heads
as they're seeing, like, nature
just act up and be their enemy.
Maggie.
I think, like, a lot of things
started to shift in
that relationship,
'cause there's a
couple of things
that I think are really key.
Go.
Negan put the call
out to help to Maggie.
So, when they were in a jam,
that's the person that
he sent a letter to,
and he sent that rider to
Hilltop to call for help.
And the thing is, Maggie came.
And I think for Maggie's side,
she saw that Negan vowed to make
sure that Hershel stayed okay,
and that was the end result.
He doesn't exactly
trust me, you know?
But I'm starting to.
She has not forgiven him,
and I don't think she's
ever going to forget.
But there is something
different about the idea
of saying, like, "But I
can trust you as an ally."
I got you.
And I got your boy.
She knows she has to trust
somebody with Hershel
because something is coming that
she's going to have to face.
I'll finish it.
Maggie, we can help
fight... No, please.
I need you to stay
here... With Hershel,
with those others.
Maggie also trusts Annie.
I think she gets the vibe
that Annie is a good person.
I think she thinks that
Annie grounds Negan
in some kind of way
that's interesting.
Like, she's, like, reading
all those dynamics.
She's feeling like the
person that he wound up with
is somebody that is as good
a person as, like, any of us.
And I think she's right.
I don't want to go.
It's only temporary, okay?
I promise.
She's really realizing,
like, maybe she's holding
onto something that's
the wrong version
of what she wants to hold onto.
And I think what she
wants to hold onto
is a sense of community,
the memory of the
people that she lost.
You know, Glenn is
buried at the Hilltop.
But does the Barrington
house itself matter?
And I think, like, that's
something that she's kind of
taking from the conversation.
She's come to the conclusion
that people are
the most important,
but that does mean that we
have to make a stand here.
Follow their trail
back to their camp,
and then we end this.
She really is like
a good war leader,
and she's a good strategist.
I think the thing that she
did not see coming was Leah.
That is a fight of pure hatred.
They cannot stand each other.
When you get caught in
a cycle of violence,
and, like, revenge,
where is the end point
when it's one retaliation
after another,
because Maggie feels like
Leah was the aggressor.
"Her and her people came
and killed my people."
And Leah feels like, "But
we made a deal with you
in good faith, and then you
shot my people in the back,
and you tried to kill me."
I have waited for this
moment for a long time.
I know what you want.
I wanted it myself
for a long time.
They cannot see eye-to-eye
because they're both
people who are leaders
that feel like the other person
was responsible for the murder
of everybody that they loved.
Yah!
For Leah, she also wants to see
Maggie suffer the way she did.
And so, in some ways, that
might have been her mistake
as a villain, rather than just
taking a shot when she could.
For Daryl, Maggie's
like his sister,
and Daryl always feels like
he owes a debt to Maggie.
So, there's not even,
like, a moment of like,
"What do I choose?"
There's nothing to choose.
The only choice he
could make is Maggie.
Sir, are you okay?
For Hornsby, this is a no-good,
very bad, horrible day.
Part of what's still
driving Hornsby
is he doesn't want this
to get back to Pamela.
And the bigger
this mess becomes,
the harder it's gonna
be to cover it up.
Now it's just become, like, "I
need to wipe out the threat."
Everybody who is out here,
like, they've got a
target on their back now.
Call it.
Tails, I guess.
We've been talking
a lot about luck
in this block of episodes.
We want to believe
that everything is
within our control.
But is it truly all
within our control?
I think that's something
that all of our characters
in varying ways
are grappling with.
And we've got a lot of
characters in this episode
that are feeling like,
"I want to, like, snatch
fate into my hands
so that it's not just
a flip of the coin."
It's not just what
somebody tells you
is gonna happen to you.
I think that's really, like,
where a lot of our characters
are feeling at sea when they
reach this block of episodes,
and that's gonna, like, inform
where they want to, like,
continue going as we
get into the final block
of the series.
we need to smoke them out.
We'll start with the Hilltop.
Previously on "The
Walking Dead"...
Open up, ain't nobody leavin'
until they look around.
You are gonna get me my cash.
They wanted us to stay quiet
but there are good people here.
They need to know the truth.
You want me to look
for secret files?
Yes, and steal them. This
involves the Miltons?
The young psychopath, at least.
My name is Lance Hornsby and
I'm here to offer you a job.
Come here.
You have everything?
Piggy Pig?
I'm not a baby anymore, Mom.
Right. I forgot.
I don't wanna go.
It's only temporary. Okay?
I promise.
I wanna help. I know
you do, Hershel,
but not this time, okay?
How far do you think?
12 miles south, give or take.
Should get there before
dark if we move fast.
Then we'll be back
before you know it.
Okay?
I got you.
Call it.
Tails, I guess.
Over there, please.
Gonna give us the
assignment, sir?
You'll know soon enough.
Morning. Oh, my God.
I thought you were still asleep.
Well, I was... soundly so.
I thought we had a
lovely night, didn't we?
Yeah, we did.
What are you reading?
Um, just
stuff on physics.
"An object in
motion"... You know.
Well...
Just so you know
you are the most remarkable
human I have ever met
in my heretofore
uneventful life.
Okay, let's not get
carried away here.
You're beautiful in every way.
Thank you.
I have to get ready for work.
If you're having
hesitation about what
I've asked you to do...
No.
I said I'll do it.
I just, um...
Hey.
You can tell me.
I just can't stop thinking about
what happens after we do this.
This place pushes on people
to keep things the same.
I just worry they'll keep
pushing till we all break.
Clear.
This room is clear!
They're not splitting up.
- Clear!
- Yeah, they will.
This might be our best
shot. No, it's too risky.
We need to just get through
this and get back home.
There is no "getting
through this," all right?
We are in the shit till we find
a way to fight our way out.
Look, we keep heading
north, away from our group.
We find our moment, we take it.
Hey, what's with the chit-chat?
Man, we need a break.
Been doing this for a while now.
And we'llkeep doing
this for a while,
if that's what it takes.
Hey, you check Charleston yet?
Why? What's in Charleston?
There's a rumor
up on the rooftops
they trade for
weapons and stuff.
Might be something, might not.
Move!
Romano, what's your 20?
13 miles past the last outpost.
Second location is
cleared, one more to go.
Copy that.
Let's move.
Hornsby's checking in on us.
We need to watch our backs.
Yeah.
Sounds like it's getting closer.
Because it is.
Mom?
I'm okay.
No, you're not.
Hershel...
Everything I've done...
And everything I still do
is so that we have choices.
The place that we're going
right now, you may not like it.
But I promise you,
it is the right choice.
For now.
Oh, you made it! This way.
Exciting.
Don't you think?
Things are coming together.
You get the scalp of the
woman who killed your family,
and I finally get to do my
job without interference.
Everybody wins.
Well
not everybody.
I'll need to see.
When she's dead.
I'll need to see
her when she's dead.
You will.
Come on.
Okay, this thing is stuck.
Maggie.
Hey, kid.
And you're sure this guy
Hornsby and his men are coming?
Yes, Elijah spotted
a few of them 5 miles
outside our walls last night.
Thoughts?
You helped us,
and I am grateful.
And I got no problem
watching the kid at all.
But, Annie, my
wife, is pregnant,
so there is no way
I'm gonna sit in some.
Whisperer worm hole
while you're out...
I don't know... Saving
some shithole of a home
that's not worth saving.
Negan, don't.
Actually, he's right.
Maybe Hilltop
isn't worth saving.
Those people are.
This fight that I'm
in, that I started,
with Hornsby...
It's not gonna end
until I end it.
And I got no doubt you will.
But I also got no doubt
that you are firmly
in the crosshairs of
this Lance asshole, so...
So I'm coming with you.
No. I'll finish it.
Maggie, we can help
fight... No, please.
I need you to stay
here... With Hershel,
with those others.
Keep them away from Hilltop
and safe until this is over.
He doesn't exactly
trust me, you know?
But I'm starting to.
You saved him
at Riverbend.
Whatever else happens,
and whatever else has happened,
I will never forget that.
Wow.
You have big balls, Maggie Rhee.
I got you.
And I got your boy.
Annie...
He'll be waiting for
you when this is done.
I promise you that.
Thank you.
Oh, shit.
If that ain't a sign
from the Man Upstairs.
You at the second location?
Clearing that now.
Finish.
Then head back.
Copy that, sir. We'll head back.
One last sweep, then home.
All right, great.
I'll lead.
Cover left, cover left!
Aah!
Keep 'em surrounded!
Flanking left! Cover me!
Moving up! Cover me, cover me!
Watch that left!
Watch that left!
Where's Hornsby?
Screw you.
It's your choice.
Maybe...
Maybe 10 miles out.
He said he wanted...
Said he wanted to
clear the field.
"Clear the field"?
Leave only allies behind.
Maggie.
Romano, you there?
He ain't here anymore.
Move! Now!
And when this world fell,
we gathered up the
scattered pieces,
and we put them
back together again.
It wasn't easy, and
we faltered at times.
But we found a reason to live
when everything
outside these walls
was dead.
Max?
You okay?
You seem
far away.
No, I'm good.
I'm right here.
Max, if you're having a
bad day, you can tell me.
I do get it, you know?
Always having to be "strong,"
never show any emotion.
But if we can't show
that to each other,
who can we show it to?
I appreciate it, Pamela.
You know I do. But...
I am really okay.
Oh, before I forget.
Accounting sent over the
Founders' Day budget.
There's a $50,000 surplus.
Well, that's great.
I was gonna suggest something,
if you're open to it?
How about starting
a scholarship fund
for our less-fortunate families?
I've put together a
proposal, and we could...
Is that... okay?
Of course! I love your
out-of-the-box thinking.
But any extra funds go
right back into the event.
It's our biggest
day of the year.
Sure.
I understand.
You really should get going.
You've got that 5:00 dinner.
Yes, thank you.
I don't know what I'd
do without you, Max.
You're leaving soon, too, right?
Right behind you.
Hey.
I'm so sorry. I didn't
mean to scare you.
No, Sebastian, hi.
Uh, no, you didn't.
Is there something
that I can help you...
Yes, uh, is... is...
Uh, is my mom pissed at me?
You know, 'cause I keep
asking for her, and... and
nothing, so... It's just been
a hectic afternoon, so...
I gotta talk to her,
so could you just...
If you could get
her for me, Max...
She's actually at a work dinner,
but I can get word
to her for you.
"Get word to her"?
Yeah, yeah, why...
Why don't you go "get
word" to her for me.
Her only child.
That is such bullshit.
I'm really sorry, Sebastian,
but I was actually
on my way out, so...
Oh, you never stop!
But, working, working, hey.
You just... Oh, God,
I mean, you even take
it home with you?
Oh, no, that's... I... I got it.
It's okay. That's fine.
Always clumsy after one too many
afternoon coffees, you know?
Yeah, it's, uh
poor man's drug.
Caffeine.
No sign of Hornsby.
Asshole always has somebody
else do his dirty work.
See if we can recover
any of their weapons.
Follow their trail
back to their camp,
and then we end this.
On it.
You ready, bud?
As ever.
Let's do it.
Marco!
Get down!
No. Marco!
Go, go.
How many?
Three.
Leah, your 20?
Leah, what the hell was that?!
I drew 'em out.
I'm doin' this my way.
Your way got my men killed!
Collateral damage.
I've got others fanned
over a 20-mile perimeter.
We'll find them.
You goddamned better.
His troopers are here.
He's gotta be close.
Yeah.
We got walkers, too.
He set traps for them.
These aren't for them.
What is it?
Leah.
I think we should split
up, cover more ground.
You sure it was her?
Yes.
Go, please.
I'll lead Leah and
the others away.
I am not gonna leave you.
I will not risk losing you two.
We can handle
ourselves, Maggie, okay?
We'll draw them away, too, and
then, when everyone's safe,
we'll just go meet
up with the others.
I'll find you. Go.
Tyler Davis is on this list.
And the woman Rosita
tried to help out
during the heist
is on here, too.
I counted 200 more.
What about these numbers?
They look like... codes?
Maybe coordinates?
So you think this is about
where they're hiding people.
Why don't we write about that?
No, not yet.
I need proof.
Something this big,
this explosive?
We... We need a key
to crack the code.
U-Until we have that,
I'll write about
Sebastian's heist,
and hang it around
Pamela's neck.
I mean, when everyone finds out
that she's not on their side,
they're gonna question
everything about this place.
Hence the
aforementioned uprising.
No, hey, hey, hey!
It's... It's okay.
I thought we could use
help, so I told him to come.
Sorry I'm late.
Trying to round up a
few more for the cause.
- Geez.
- I told him
we'd needed more people
to get the article out.
And I got a whole network, ready
and willing to ride at dawn.
We're doing this?
Let's ride.
I have waited for this
moment for a long time.
I know what you want.
I wanted it myself
for a long time.
You can't kill me.
That would be too easy.
If that was what you wanted,
you would've done it already.
You want me to suffer.
Feel everything that you felt.
All the pain.
'Cause somewhere inside you,
you think that'll
take away your pain.
It won't.
You're wrong.
It's not just you.
By the time I'm done...
Everyone you love will be dead.
Then I guess that makes us even.
I took your family,
you take mine.
Nature has a way of taking
care of these things.
It's not nature.
Or fate.
It's us.
I killed your people because
it was what I wanted.
If this is what
you want, Leah...
Go ahead.
You want it, so do it.
Go on.
Hyah!
They're in there!
Sir, are you okay?
Let it go! On the other side!
Who's my backup here?
Hold your fire!
Now we take it all.
Oh, shit.
If that ain't a sign
from the Man Upstairs.
The locusts, in some ways
it's an atmospheric element.
It's just part of, like,
the sense of the world
itself is hostile.
I think for our heroes,
this overwhelming sound
is part of, like, what
makes things complicated,
because it makes it harder to
hear Leah coming, for example.
But, on the other hand,
they're looking at it
as kind of like this
unsettling thing,
which is this a problem for them
in terms of, like,
being, like, a harbinger
of more problems to come.
Seems like it's getting closer.
Because it is.
There's just a lot running
through their heads
as they're seeing, like, nature
just act up and be their enemy.
Maggie.
I think, like, a lot of things
started to shift in
that relationship,
'cause there's a
couple of things
that I think are really key.
Go.
Negan put the call
out to help to Maggie.
So, when they were in a jam,
that's the person that
he sent a letter to,
and he sent that rider to
Hilltop to call for help.
And the thing is, Maggie came.
And I think for Maggie's side,
she saw that Negan vowed to make
sure that Hershel stayed okay,
and that was the end result.
He doesn't exactly
trust me, you know?
But I'm starting to.
She has not forgiven him,
and I don't think she's
ever going to forget.
But there is something
different about the idea
of saying, like, "But I
can trust you as an ally."
I got you.
And I got your boy.
She knows she has to trust
somebody with Hershel
because something is coming that
she's going to have to face.
I'll finish it.
Maggie, we can help
fight... No, please.
I need you to stay
here... With Hershel,
with those others.
Maggie also trusts Annie.
I think she gets the vibe
that Annie is a good person.
I think she thinks that
Annie grounds Negan
in some kind of way
that's interesting.
Like, she's, like, reading
all those dynamics.
She's feeling like the
person that he wound up with
is somebody that is as good
a person as, like, any of us.
And I think she's right.
I don't want to go.
It's only temporary, okay?
I promise.
She's really realizing,
like, maybe she's holding
onto something that's
the wrong version
of what she wants to hold onto.
And I think what she
wants to hold onto
is a sense of community,
the memory of the
people that she lost.
You know, Glenn is
buried at the Hilltop.
But does the Barrington
house itself matter?
And I think, like, that's
something that she's kind of
taking from the conversation.
She's come to the conclusion
that people are
the most important,
but that does mean that we
have to make a stand here.
Follow their trail
back to their camp,
and then we end this.
She really is like
a good war leader,
and she's a good strategist.
I think the thing that she
did not see coming was Leah.
That is a fight of pure hatred.
They cannot stand each other.
When you get caught in
a cycle of violence,
and, like, revenge,
where is the end point
when it's one retaliation
after another,
because Maggie feels like
Leah was the aggressor.
"Her and her people came
and killed my people."
And Leah feels like, "But
we made a deal with you
in good faith, and then you
shot my people in the back,
and you tried to kill me."
I have waited for this
moment for a long time.
I know what you want.
I wanted it myself
for a long time.
They cannot see eye-to-eye
because they're both
people who are leaders
that feel like the other person
was responsible for the murder
of everybody that they loved.
Yah!
For Leah, she also wants to see
Maggie suffer the way she did.
And so, in some ways, that
might have been her mistake
as a villain, rather than just
taking a shot when she could.
For Daryl, Maggie's
like his sister,
and Daryl always feels like
he owes a debt to Maggie.
So, there's not even,
like, a moment of like,
"What do I choose?"
There's nothing to choose.
The only choice he
could make is Maggie.
Sir, are you okay?
For Hornsby, this is a no-good,
very bad, horrible day.
Part of what's still
driving Hornsby
is he doesn't want this
to get back to Pamela.
And the bigger
this mess becomes,
the harder it's gonna
be to cover it up.
Now it's just become, like, "I
need to wipe out the threat."
Everybody who is out here,
like, they've got a
target on their back now.
Call it.
Tails, I guess.
We've been talking
a lot about luck
in this block of episodes.
We want to believe
that everything is
within our control.
But is it truly all
within our control?
I think that's something
that all of our characters
in varying ways
are grappling with.
And we've got a lot of
characters in this episode
that are feeling like,
"I want to, like, snatch
fate into my hands
so that it's not just
a flip of the coin."
It's not just what
somebody tells you
is gonna happen to you.
I think that's really, like,
where a lot of our characters
are feeling at sea when they
reach this block of episodes,
and that's gonna, like, inform
where they want to, like,
continue going as we
get into the final block
of the series.