Zombies on a train!
Tensions are already high because Negan’s gonna Negan, but also Maggie’s gonna Maggie.
Then add walkers clamoring on the outside and more chomping for some grub on the inside.
Lauren Cohan’s Maggie in ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
Negan tries to play it off like he doesn’t know what happened to Maggie.
“She was right behind me!”
So, the group vows to trudge onward.
The doors between subway cars are mostly rusted shut and take considerable strength to open.
By the second or third car, Negan’s plan backfires.
I mean, he’s not wrong.
He screams at them to let him in as walkers slowly approach from the rear of the car.
Alden moves to launch the door, but Maggie signals one of her men to stop him.
She says they don’t have the ammo to wipe the walkers.
If they open that door, they could all die.
This isn’t the same Maggie that left Hilltop years ago.
Maggie knew he was lying but she was starving.
She jumped him and knocked him out with the chloroform rag he planned to use on her.
And they were pregnant, no doubt with more of whatever deformed monstrosities she had just witnessed earlier.
Seeing that made Maggie lose something, she explains.
She sees things much clearer now, knowing what kinds of threats are out there in the world.
It’s not dissimilar to Negan.
We sawhis flashback origin episodein the expanded back half of season 10.
Could Maggie get to a point where, dare we say it, she understands Negan?
They soon are forced to squash their beef for the time being and work together to survive.
The group continues through the subway until they reach an impasse.
Maggie and Negan share a moment as she hands him a gun to go help.
It’s Daryl who ultimately saves the day.
He and Dog had been on their own little adventure.
He found the remains of a survivor camp in the subway system.
It seems he was murdered over something that now has no value in this world.
Daryl finds a letter written by a kid to his family on a 100 dollar bill.
He had gone to the surface but was severely wounded by walkers.
He gives Daryl his last remaining gun and grenade.
Daryl then finds his way to the subway and kills off some of the dead.
They gather Roy and make their way to the surface.
On the road, they come across dead bodies strung up in the trees by their feet.
Then, they’re attacked.
Roy gets an arrow to the eye and a blade lands in Cole’s thigh.
They take cover as we’re left with a lasting image of the Reapers about to swarm them.
In happier news, things are going much better for the Commonwealth crew.
Eugene is brought into a room where he’s interrogated one last time.
It works and Eugene joins the others to receive their official welcome into the Commonwealth.
Then, who should walk in but Stephanie?
