Walker Sasha gets pulled off of Negan by another savior, who is promptly eaten by her.

Rick offers to make another deal with Jadis (who still has a gun on him) – she says no, shoots him in the side and knocks him off the stand he’s on.

Michonne is having a really bad time with a blonde female savior, and getting her head smashed into to ground. She is getting the hell beaten out of her, but continues to dfight giving it all she's got.

Jadis forces a shot rick to walk to the saviors.

Michonne finally gets the upper hand on the Saviour she’s fighting, trying to stab her with it, but it doesn’t kill her.

Back to Rick – Carl is already with the Saviours and Jadis has Rick kneel in front of Negan.

Negan chastises Rick for trying to defy him, and tells Carl it’s over.

Michonne is now half way off a ledge with the savior still on top of her. Rick hears Michonne scream and looks devastated. Negan begins to taunt Rick “you just lost somebody important to you. Now that is timing. "Well, Rick, I didn’t know what else I could do to warn you. Now this isn’t warning, this is punishment."

Negan says he’s going to kill Carl and take Ricks hand. Rick is defiant and tells Negan he’s still going to kill him. “You’re all already dead”,he says. Negan laughs.

Negan gets up to kill Carl…as he gets up swinging, there’s Shiva! Who leaps out of nowhere & kills a savior – suddenly, the Kingdom folks ride in (some literally) with Carol in the lead!. Lots of close ups of Shiva having lunch, killing people although one former death, a Scavenger woman, may have been changed to just being shot by Ezekiel as part of the massive double re-edits for this episode.

Suddenly Maggie is there with the Hilltop troops as back up. We see Daryl, Morgan, Carol and Ezekiel fighting along with Alexandria. Negan sees that Maggie is alive. “The widow with guns a-blazing"” he exclaims.

Carol and the Kingdom save the day

Negan raised his bat to bash Carl in the head. Shiva flies out of nowhere and attacks a male savior/junkyard distracting everybody and their uncle including Negan keeping him from using Lucille against Carl. Mayhem ensues. People are screaming and people are firing their weapons including Dwight and Simon. Rick and Carl duck for cover.

The Kingdom is here. The Kingdom and badass Carol are here! Bullets are flying and King Ezekiel storms in on foot firing his gun and shouting, “Every savior and their accomplices, Alexandria will not fall. Not on this day!”

Carol, Jerry, and the rest are kicking arse and taking names. The battleax on Jerry’s back is thirsty waiting her turn for vengeance. There’s a beautiful shot of Carol up close as she fires her machine gun. Shiva is making a midday snack of the savior. Her teeth sunk into his neck.

Rick crawls on the ground to get a gun on the ground, but as he reaches for it a savior/junkyard person makes to kill Rick. The bad guy is shot before he can kill Rick. The shooter is Maggie effing Rhee come to save the day with her sidekick Enid and the rest of the Hilltop gang. She’s yelling orders. Next we see Daryl firing away.

Rick is now armed and killing bad guys left and right.

Negan has taken cover behind a car with Dwight close by. He yells, “Goddamn tiger!” He’s armed with more than Lucille and is firing back at TF and crew. He may have run out of ammunition because he drops the gun and sprints off- screen with only his stick.

Morgan is here with stick in one hand and assault rifle in the other. He’s not playing and adds gunfire to the fray. He seems like a clearheaded Morgan, not Clear Morgan.

Maggie, and Enid, both cool as cucumbers are walking and firing off shots. Negan sees Maggie: “That widow is alive.” Negan runs out of bullets. “Taste that Simon? That’s the taste of shite!” Negan runs off screen.

Another savior takes Negan’s place behind the car. He shooting at TF. Shiva leaps through the air and takes him out.

Rick and Carl, side by side firing off rounds. The camera quickly moves to King Ezekiel and Carol who are killing every bad guy in their sights. Two junkyard/saviors sneak up behind them but are both quickly killed by Carol. She saves King Ezekiel’s life as well as her own.

A savior comes up behind Rick and is about to shoot him but is killed spectacularly by Morgan and his trusty stick. First he crashes the stick down on the arm with the gun, and then he stabs the pointed end into the man’s neck. Go Morgan! Morgan and Rick give each other a look like, I got you, brother before going back to fighting. Morgan picks up the gun that belonged to the man he just killed and he and Rick start fighting side by side.

Simon slides behind a car and starts shooting.

Jadis and Brion take cover. She nods to him.

Brion takes out a flare gun and shoots it into the sky. The camera pans to Tamiel who lights a fuse on the end of a blue soda can and rolls it on the ground away from her. Another junkyarder throw something in the air. Smoke like you would see from a smoke bomb fills the screen. He and two other junkyard peeps retreat in the opposite direction from where it was thrown. Smoke is now everywhere making it hard to see, and the junkyard crew run out of Alexandria.

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Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:13 pm to tzimme4

Rick, Maggie, and Jesus and others come out from behind the RV. Rick tells them, “They’re falling back.” Maggie orders to Eduardo to go between the houses and “cover the gate.”

King Ezekiel is with Carol and his soldiers. He yells out, “Now we finish this!” Rick and Carl join them and they run down the street to chase after the bad guys who have left, are leaving the kingdom.

The camera changes to Maggie as she runs, crouched down behind a car ready to take out whoever is on the other side. The other side is where she finds Daryl, Enid, Morgan, and Jesus.

Next shot: Francine, Father Gabriel, Scott, and Tobin are shooting at a truck as it speeds towards Alexandria’s gates. It’s Negan in the passenger seat. He flips them the bird.

TF, Hilltop, and Kingdom are chasing after them on foot, but have to duck for cover when gunfire rains down on them from above. A Savior shuts the gate locking TF inside Alexandria. There are Saviors on top of the walls shooting at them. One by one they climb down and flee.

TF is firing back. Aaron, Jerry, and Morgan try to open the gate, while Daryl climbs up the ladder on the side of a truck to get a look at where the Saviors are. They’re gone.

The Scavengers pull out and start throwing smoke bombs, at which point the Scavengers and Saviours retreat. A flare gun fired is the signal for those fighters to run away amid the smoke and confusion. Negan takes off flipping the bird to everyone. Daryl climbs a truck to double check, as Rick and Carl go to find Michonne. They find the Scavenger’s body instead and find Michonne inside the house.

Rick and Carl run towards the house and find the dead scavenger, they go inside to see Michonne leaning against the wall semi-conscious.Her face is beaten to hell with her left eye closed, a bloody mouth and swollen everywhere.

Rick goes go her and shakes her a little and says "you're alive" he and Carl kneel by her and it looks like they take her hands. She tries to say "we.." but she's too injured. Rick finishes for her and says "I know. We are. We will. " he hugs her and nuzzles her shoulder as the camera pans away from the three of them. Later in the infirmary, he holds her right hand and strokes her arm to comfort her.

Carol and her squad from the Kingdom roam the grounds looking for stragglers, survivors and any weapons dropped by the retreating groups
Groups of the ASZ folks do the same, everyone is looking to make sure the area is safe.

Back at The Sanctuary, Negan asks Eugene how Sasha could have died in the coffin, "How the hell do you think she wound up dead in that box. "...she ran out of air..." he tells Negan who just stares him in the eye and says "Maybe, obviously suspicious of Eugene.

"So, we are going to war!", Negan yells to the Saviours who all cheer loudly.

This episode was heavily edited, not once but twice in fact, and I do not know what indirect Caryl callbacks were removed or why. The episode ends with a long Maggie voice-over and a montage of various survivors cleaning up and sitting together

Carol and Morgan

Maggie’s voiceover at the point Carol appears:…from Atlanta to my daddy’s farm, to the prison, to here. (Right after “to here” is when Carol sits down beside Morgan.) To this moment now. (Carol is first to turn her head to look at Morgan, he then follows.) Not as strangers. (Morgan is first to break eye contact.) As family.

Things have settled down in Alexandria. People are milling about in the streets. Carol, no longer wearing armor, walk out into the middle of the street and sees Morgan sitting on the front steps of a house. He too is no longer wearing Benjamin’s armor but sits there with his stick across his lap, his hands clasped. He still wears his wedding ring. He’s in his own little world and is slightly startled when Carol climbs the steps and sits next to him. Her pose mirrors his: legs slightly apart, hands clasped. At first, it seems like they don’t know what to say to each other, and don’t look at each other but instead out into the street. Neither is entirely comfortable; Morgan especially. His thumbs are moving with nervous energy. Carol is the first to turn to look at him, and then he turns to look at her. They stay that way for a couple of seconds before looking back towards the street. I think they not only came to a truce, but an understanding that they are now here for each other.

Maggie, crying, puts down walker Sasha after she and Jesus find her wandering in the woods.

The survivors share food, introduce themselves and start listening to Rick, Ezekiel and Maggie speak to them at the very end.

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