Summary:
The Same Boat
The Saviors don’t want to make a 2 for 1 trade and they don’t have the people to take on team Rick so they bag Maggie and Carol and run. They walk them through the woods before getting in some vehicle and making several radio calls, changing channels and talking in codes. Its clear from the level of organization that Team Rick may have just big off more than they can chew. The Saviors aren’t just some ragtag group of bikers.
Carol and Maggie are taken to an unknown location that looks kid of like a hospital or other institutional building. The lead Savior chick tells her two captives they don’t have a way out unless she lets them out. Wherever they are does not sound like its completely secure – the Saviors gear is gone and their bolt hole is full of biters.
Once the Saviors are back in the room Carol starts to hyperventilate while clutching a rosary. She tells them to do whatever to herself (Carol) but to leave Maggie alone, because she’s pregnant. I think Carol is trying to put the Saviors at ease, but I think it might have been a mistake to tell the Saviors that Maggie was preggers.
The guy that Carol shot is bleeding out and he wants revenge. He knows he might be dying and he wants to make sure that Carol suffers as much as he does. He hits Paula which gives Maggie & Carol a chance to jump in, only Paula doesn’t seem to care that they were trying to help.
After Paula takes control again they take Maggie into a separate room to interrogate her. They want to know where home base is. They want to know where Maggie felt safe enough to have a kid and where she had time to wash her clothes.
Shortly after they take Maggie into the other room Rick contacts Paula on the walkie again. He wants to make the trade but Pauls isn’t agreeing to anything yet. In the process Carol spins a tale about how they attacked the Savior stronghold because they were attacked on the road and were scared. It explains what happened to the biker patrol but doesn’t seem to do much to help Carol’s position with the Saviors. She does get Paula talking though, which I guess gives Carol a chance to learn and get into her head.
It doesn’t help. Paula has stalled long enough that her own backup has arrived just in time for her arranged meet up with Rick to do the trade. Luckily Carol has been able to use her rosary to get out of her duct tape bonds just in time. She gets to Maggie and wants to run but Maggie wants to attack.
Carol and Maggie head out into the facility. Maggie unties the tourniquet from the wounded savior – presumably so he’ll die and turn – which is exactly what happens. The heavset woman walks in just in time to get bit, then gets beat to death by Maggie with her own gun.
Carol and Maggie get out just before Paula comes back and finds her two dead comrades. She racks her pistol and then we cut to commercial.
When we come back Maggie & Carol come to the walker blockade. While they are stalled Paula comes up behind them and opens fire until she is out of ammo. After a tense moment Carol wings Paula and then the last Savior almost guts Maggie before Carol saves her too.
Paula puts up a big more of a fight before finally getting spiked and then Carol & Maggie trick the Savior rescue party into a closed off room before burning them up with some gas.
The episode ends with Carol & Maggie escaping the facility to run into the arms of Team Rick. Maggie ends up in Glenn’s arms and Daryl takes Carol in his.
Rick shoots the last Savior in the head when he says he Negan. Rick doesn’t know “we are all Negan” yet.
Things I loved about this episode…
- The way Carol can be anyone she wants to be. I loved the way she put the Saviors at ease, taking back on the meek and meager persona the moment the Saviors had her.
- Paula telling Carol that she’s weak. I can’t wait for Carol to show her how untrue that is.
- The moment that Paula realizes that Carol isn’t the frightened little bird that she plays to be.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- The heavyset Savior woman with cancer seemed a little too well nourished t0 have been living in the post ZA world.
- Why is Carol having such a hard time shooting Paula?
Firsts…
- First time we see Maggie beat someone to death with a pistol.
- First time we see Carol hesitate when she needed to be tough as nails. Come on, kill Paula already.
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